Bennett v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted in the Corporation Court of Texarkana for vagrancy under the State law, was found guilty, and fined $10.

She attempted to appeal to the County Court, hut upon motion of the State’s attorney the case was dismissed because the County Court had no jurisdiction of the appeal. The sole question in the case is whether or not the County Court had jurisdiction of the appeal. If it did, the case must be reversed; if it did not, it must be affirmed.

By a special Act of the Legislature approved May 2, 1907, page 823, et seq., the City of Texarkana, as a city of…