
    PARRISH v. STATE.
    (No. 6763.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 22, 1922.)
    1. Criminal law <&wkey;>l5 — Prosecution1 dismissed on repeal of statute under which defendant was convicted.
    Prosecution for possessing equipment for manufacture of intoxicating liquor will be dismissed on repeal of' provision of Dean Law under which defendant was prosecuted by Acts 37th Leg. 1st Called Sess. (1921) c. 61.
    2. Intoxicating liquors <&wkey;132 — Provision of Dean Law making possession of equipment for manufacturing liquor illegal held repealed by amendment.
    Amendment to Dean Law by Acts 37th Leg. 1st Called Sess. (1921) c. 61, by omitting therefrom any mention of possession of equipment for manufacturing liquor, repealed the law making the possession of such equipment illegal.
    Appeal from District Court, Hale County; R. C. Joiner, Judge.
    B. B. Parrish was convicted of possessing equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
    Judgment reversed, and prosecution ordered dismissed.
    W. W. Kirk, of Plainview, for appellant. R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Hale county of the offense of possessing equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary. [1,2] The First Called Session of the Thirty-Seventh. Legislature, in their amendment (chapter 61) to the Dean Law (Acts 36th Leg. 2d Called Sess. c. 78), omitted therefrom any mention of the possession of equipment for manufacturing liquor, and by such omission repealed the law making the possession of such equipment illegal and this court had no option thereafter but to reverse and dismiss pending prosecutions for such offense. Cox v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 234 S. W. 531, and cases cited. Following these authorities, and for the reasons therein stated, the judgment of the trial court in the instant case will be reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.' 
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