Shaw v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Pecos. Tried below before the Honorable James Connell. Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquors; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The appellant was charged and convicted for' the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquors which was prohibited by Section 20, Article 16 of the Constitution.
It is insisted that in consequence of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Act of Congress thereunder the offense was one not within the purview of the State courts. We expressed a contrary view in Ex parte Gilmore, 88 Texas Crim. Rep., 529, recently decided. The special term of court at which the appellant was tried was called and held under circumstances which have frequently been held not…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- The People v. . JaehneNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Ex Parte GilmoreCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1920
- Exon v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1894
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- Harris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1893
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