Sparks v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

—This is an appeal from the District Court of Hopkins County in which appellant was convicted for selling liquor in violation of the local option law, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment alleges the adoption of the local option law in Hopkins County in 1901, and that it was in force in said county in September, 1919, at which time it was further alleged that appellant unlawfully engaged in, pursued and followed the occupation of selling liquor in said county in violation of said law. Appellant made a motion to quash the indictment based on…