Ex Parte Meyer

As I see it, the Legislature had authority to adopt and establish an election code without repealing the penal provisions of existing statutes and to provide a punishment by fine or imprisonment for the violation of certain of its provisions, without any reference in the caption to its penal provisions. Ex Parte Jimenez, 159 Texas 183, 317 S.W. 2d 189, 193; Doeppenschmidt v. International and G.N.R. Co., 101 S.W. 2d 1080; Johnson v. Martin et al, 12 S.W. 321.

The provision in the caption that nothing in the election code shall be construed as repealing or in any way affecting the legality of…