Givens v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before Hon. G. P. Webb. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $50 and forty days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was tried for violating the local option law which went into effect under the election held in 1903. There was a subsequent election held on July 29, 1905. It seems from this record that this law had not been published at the time of the alleged violation on August 28th. The State relied upon the election held in 1903, and introduced evidence of the fact that the law was put into operation in that year. Appellant suggested, as ground of his objection to the introduction of the first election, the fact that the second election was held in the summer of 1905.…
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