Legal Opinion · Dissent

Joliff v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 29, 1908No. 4085Published

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1Dissent

DAVIDSON", Pbesidihg Judge

(dissenting).—I cannot agree with my Brethren in the proposition announced in the opinion on the motion for rehearing, admitting the evidence of general reputation. Previous decisions of this court and courts in this State have admitted evidence of general reputation with regard tó what was at the time of the rendition of the opinion, known as “disorderly houses.” The statute, at the time of the rendition of those opinions, did not have the definition given or attempted to be given by the Act of the Thirtieth Legislature, p. 246. Heretofore houses have been termed…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Wooster v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
  2. Sylvester v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1874
  3. Morris v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1873
  4. Barker v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1894
  5. Commonwealth v. EaganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890

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