Walker v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Falls County of transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.

The indictment charges the commission of this offense to have occurred about the 3rd of March, 1923, and the proof corresponds with the allegation. The exceptions contained in the statute were not negatived in the indictment. It is insisted that for such failure the indictment is defective. We do not think so. By the amendment to the Dean Law effective in November, 1921, the exceptions were removed from what is called the…