Knott v. State

The elaborate argument in the motion for rehearing to the point that Art. 588 I/2a of the Penal Code, as contained on the Complete Statutes of Texas, 1920, is void because of its incompatibility with the United States statute known as the Volstead Act and with the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, relates to a matter which is not open to debate, inasmuch as it has been settled against the contention of the appellant by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, as illustrated by the State of Maine v. Gauthier, 121 Me. 522, 118 A. 380, 26 Amer. Law Rep. 652;…