Galloway v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Limestone. Tried below before Hon. A. J. Harper, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for violating local option; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days imprisonment in the county jail.
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Appeal from the County Court of Limestone. Tried below before Hon. A. J. Harper, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for violating local option; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days imprisonment in the county jail. Apellant interposed a plea of former conviction to the effect that he had been convicted, at the same term of court, for selling intoxicating liquors without first procuring a license under the law of 1897 regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in local option districts. This plea the court overruled without having submitted it to the jury. The liquor sold by appellant…
1DissentDavidson, Presiding Judge
Appellant was convicted for failing to obtain necessary license authorizing him to sell intoxicants in local option territory. He was then placed on trial under an information charging him with violating the local option law in the same territory. In bar of the second prosecution, he pleaded the conviction in the former case. The plea is in the usual form, and sets up the testimony as being identical in both cases. This plea, on demurrer of the State, was stricken out by the trial court, and appellant reserved an exception. At our Dallas term the judgment in this case was affirmed. The record…
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