Medford v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Conviction for violating the local option law; the penalty assessed being a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement, in the county jail.

The record before us is without statement of facts. By bill of exceptions it is made to appear, sufficiently, perhaps, to raise the question that local option was put into effect in Justice Precinct No. 3 by an election held in December, 1899, and that the law really went into effect about the 23d day of January, 1900. It was conceded, for the purposes of the motion to quash, that the commissioners court changed the boundaries of…