
    The State v. Houck et al.
    [No. 2,283.
    Filed November 24, 1896.]
    From the Grant Circuit Court.
    
      Reversed.
    
    
      W. A. Ketcham, Attorney General, and Ellis Bundy, for State.
    
      Elliott & Elliott, Jonn T. Strange and Ethan A. Huffman, for appellees.
   Gavin, J.

By section 248, Burns’ R. S. 1894, the repeal of a criminal statute does not relieve an offender from prosecution for violations of the statute prior to its repeal, unless the repealing act shall so expressly provide. State v. Hardman, ante, 357.

Judgment reversed.  