Slack v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The following statement from appellant’s brief is substantially correct. The evidence disclosed that on June 5, 1909, the local option election was held in Comanche County, Texas, which resulted in the adoption of the local option law.
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The following statement from appellant’s brief is substantially correct. The evidence disclosed that on June 5, 1909, the local option election was held in Comanche County, Texas, which resulted in the adoption of the local option law. The order of the Commissioner’s Court, declaring the result, of this election, was published in the "Pioneer Exponent” on the 17th and 24th days of June, and the 1st and 8th days of July, 1909. The State showed that the defendant had not paid an occupation tax for selling liquors in Comanche County. E. Smith testified that during the months of November and…
1Opinion
On a former day of this term the judgment herein was affirmed. Appellant has filed a motion for rehearing, and insists that the court erred in holding the indictment valid, and that it was not necessary to negative the exceptions further than was done, and has filed an exhaustive brief. In addition thereto an able oral argument was made, and we have given the question careful and painstaking investigation, inasmuch as our eminent presiding judge holds to a different view.
Appellant criticises the original opinion in upholding the opinion of this court in the Mizell case, 59 Tex. Crim. 226, 128…
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