McCowan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Honorable Richard I. Munroe. Appeal. from a conviction of having in possession equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating' liquor; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. On question of indictment: Cited Burciago v. State, 228 S. W. Rep., 562; Henzen v. State, 137 id., 1141.
1Opinion of the Court
HAWKINS, Judge.
Appellant was charged by indictment in various counts for violation of what has been termed the Dean Law. The fifth count, under which this conviction was had, charged him with possessing equipment for making intoxicating liquor. The Acts of the First and Second Called Session of the Thirty-seventh Legislature, page 233, so amended the Dean Law that the possession of equipment for the.manufacture of intoxicating liquor is not now an offense. State v. Cox, 90 Texas Crim. Rep., 256, Number 6423, decided at the present term of this court, and not yet reported.
It, therefore,…
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