MORRISON v. STATE

No. 32018.

339 S.W.2d 529 (1960)

Charles Walter MORRISON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 12, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shelton W. Booth, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., Jerome V. Chamberlain, Jr., Robert E. Lyle, Phil Burleson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful possession of a machine gun; the punishment, 2 years.

The indictment drawn under Art. 489b Vernon's Ann.P.C. alleged that appellant did "unlawfully possess a machine gun, to-wit, a weapon from which more than five (5) shots or bullets may be automatically discharged from a magazine by a single functioning of the firing device."

Art. 489b V.A.P.C., Sections, 1, 2 and 4, read as follows:

"Section 1...

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