Stewart v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
This appeal is from a conviction under an information for a violation of the local option law, in a subdivision of Collin county, -the punishment assessed being inrprisonment for twenty days in the county jail and a fine of $50. The charging part of the information is set out in the opinion. A motion to quash the information was overruled in the trial court.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
The appellant was convicted for violating the local option law. The information charges that the appellant, “on the 7th of October, 1895, and within the following described subdivision of Collin County, to-wit: [giving a description, by metes and bounds, of a certain portion of Collin County], did then and there unlawfully sell to Charley Wrenn intoxicating liquors; the sale of intoxicating liquors having theretofore, and being then and there, prohibited in said subdivision under and by the laws of said State.” This constitutes the ■entire charging part of the information. A…
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