State v. Gutschke

The petitioners here are citizens of Jim Wells County who attempted to exercise their rights under Art. 667-6 (b) of the Penal Code to protest the granting of an application of respondent, Mrs. Jewel Gutschke, for a Retailer’s On-Premises beer license by the county judge of that county. The judges refused the application but on appeal to the district court by Mrs. Gutschke under paragraph (e) of the same article, her application was granted. The appeal of petitioners to the Court of Civil Appeals was dismissed on the ground that on the record they were not truly parties to the suit, not…