Black v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

On March 16, 1909, an indictment was returned in the District Court of Ellis County, charging appellant with unlawfully and wilfully -failing and refusing to keep up certain stock and with unlawfully permitting same to run' at large, after the qualified' voters of Ellis County had determined at an election held in accordance with the laws of said State, that such stock should not be permitted to run at large in said county, and after the returns of said election had been opened, tabulated and counted by the county judge of said county in the presence of the county clerk…