Bearden v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Conviction for violating the liquor law; punishment, a fine of $100.00.

Appellant was convicted for transporting beer in Motley County, it being simply alleged in the first count of the information “The transportation of such liquor in said county having been theretofore and was then prohibited in said county by the laws of said State.” The information is bad. See Whitmire v. State, 94 S. W. (2d) 742. The information should have set out all of the facts accompanying and showing that in fact a local option election had been held in Motley County under an order of the…