Cornelius v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Bowie County of a violation of the tick eradication law, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $25.

Appellant moved to quash the complaint, among others, for the reason that same did not plead affirmatively the existence of any tick quarantine in Bowie County. By an inspection of the various Acts of our Legislature providing for tick eradication in this State, it will be seen that the law is not made effective in any county of the State except upon taking certain defined steps made necessary to invoke its application.…