Cox v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Shelby. Tried below before the Honorable Charles T. Brachfield. Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully possessing equipment for making intoxicating liquor; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary, with recommendation for suspended sentence. The opinion states the case. Cited cases in opinion, also Williams v. State, 227 S. W. Rep. 316.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judgu.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Shelby county of possessing equipment for making intoxicating liquor. But one question will be noticed.
Under Section 1 of the Dean Law it was made penal to possess equipment for making spirituous, vinous or malt liquor, or other intoxicant, and the prosecution and conviction herein was under- said Section 1. Said Sections 1 and 2 were amended by what is Chapter 61, Acts First and Second Called Sessions, Thirty-seventh Legislature. An examination of said amended statutes discloses that possession of such equipment is not…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. AndrewsTexas Supreme Court · 1857
- Chambers v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1860
3Cited by23 opinions
- Ex Parte MitchumCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
- Mendoza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970
- Lee v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
- Ex Parte AndresCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
- Dossett v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
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