State v. Shadle

Citations

• 41 Tex. 404

Syllabus

<p>1. A HENAL STATUTE ENACTED DURING WAR, WHEN NOT TO BE enforced.—The act of May 28, 1864, (Pas. Dig., art. 2400,) being passed during the war of the Confederacy, and which, in order to cheek the impressment of private property for public use, punished a mere trespass as a felony, was not intended to be enforced after the return of peace and the state of public affairs which caused its passage had ceased.</p> <p>2. An act must embrace but one object.—The act of May 28,1864, entitled ‘-‘An act to punish unlawful interference with private property or private rights,” embraced more than, one object, and was in violation of the twenty-fourth section of Art. VII of the Constitution of 1845.</p>