Kenyon v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Taylor. Tried below before Hon. D. G. Hill, County Judge. This was a prosecution by information in the County Court under the acts of the Twenty-second Legislature, General Laws 1891, page 20, defining and punishing usury.
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Appeal from the County Court of Taylor. Tried below before Hon. D. G. Hill, County Judge. This was a prosecution by information in the County Court under the acts of the Twenty-second Legislature, General Laws 1891, page 20, defining and punishing usury. At his trial, appellant was convicted, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $15. By an act passed at the called session of the Twenty-second Legislature, approved April 11,1892, the act under which the prosecution in'this case was had, was expressly repealed.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This prosecution is based upon an alleged violation of the act of the Twenty-second Legislature defining and punishing usury. Acts 1891, p. 20.
There are several questions raised upon the record and urged as grounds for reversal of the judgment of conviction. Subsequent to the conviction of appellant, and pending this appeal, the special session of the Twenty-second Legislature, which has just adjourned, repealed the statute upon which this case is predicated, and in doing so, failed to substitute any penalty in lieu of that prescribed by the Act of 1891. By the Penal Code,…
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