Bowman v. State
This text of 90 S.W.2d 835 (Bowman v. State) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; punishment assessed at one year in the penitentiary.
The law (Pen.Code 1925, art. 666 et seq., as amended) under which prosecution was had was repealed by the act of the Legislature in November, ’ 1935 (Vernon’s Ann.P.C. art. 666 — 49), and said repealing statute contains no saving clause for further prosecution or punishment of persons whose cases had not been finally disposed of at the time said act became effective. See Meadows v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 88 S.W.(2d) 481.
The judgment is reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed. '
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