Abbott v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

In bill number 1 appellant complains that the court erred in admitting the order for the election, the order declaring the result, and the county judge’s publication of the same, because the election was ordered at a special session of the commissioners court, when, that body was sitting as a board of equalization. We think this can be done, under the present statute. Article 3384, Revised Civil Statutes, provides: “The…