Spears v. State

Appellant was convicted in the county court of Howard county of a misdemeanor, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $200 and confinement in the county jail for 20 days. -

The indictment contained three counts. The court submitted only the first and third. The jury found appellant not guilty under the first count, but convicted him under the third, which reads as follows:

“And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present in and to said court that Bob Spears, on or about the 4th day of December, A. D. 1920, and anterior to the presentment of this indictment, in the…