Opinion

Wilson v. State

  • 140 Tex. Crim. 509
  • 145 S.W.2d 598
  • 1940 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 691
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Oct 30, 1940
Status
Published
Author
Graves
On the bench
Graves, Christian
Cited by
2 cases

The opinion

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant insists that the indictment in this cause is defective

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in that it therein charges him with the possession of marijuana, when the statute, Art. 725b, P. C., denounces the possession of marihuana; and we gather therefrom that the point herein involved is the fact that the statute spells the narcotic with an “h” while the indictment spells the narcotic with the letter “j.”

It is true that the statute employs the letter “h” in the spelling of the drug, and it is further true that the indictment herein employs the letter “j” in place of the letter “h.”

Webster’s International Dictionary gives the following spelling- of this drug: “Marijuana, also marihuana.” We gather therefrom that this drug is spelled either way, and we are also of the opinion that these two methods of spelling this drug sound the same, and are idem sonans.

We think the further matters urged by appellant were properly disposed of in our original opinion, and the motion is overruled.

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