Benton v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. J. W. Hassell. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the county court of Grayson County for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors in violation of the local option law.
The information charged that appellant had unlawfully sold intoxicating liquors to one Ambrose Skipworth, on the 12th day of November, 1906. It appears from a recital of the judgment that the defendant interposed a plea of former conviction, in that, he had been theretofore convicted of a sale made at the same time and as a part of the same transaction as that growing out of the facts upon which the presen) charge is based. The facts…
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