Adams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The following taken from appellant’s brief is a substantial statement of the facts of the case:—The prosecuting witness Barnes testified substantially that on the 5th of September 1904 he went into defendant’s barber shop and asked him if he had anything and he said yes, over at the depot, and "I asked him if I could get some and he said yes, if I would help him pay express charges;” that witness laid $3 on a table or box in the back end of the shop and stepped out and…
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The following taken from appellant’s brief is a substantial statement of the facts of the case:—The prosecuting witness Barnes testified substantially that on the 5th of September 1904 he went into defendant’s barber shop and asked him if he had anything and he said yes, over at the depot, and "I asked him if I could get some and he said yes, if I would help him pay express charges;” that witness laid $3 on a table or box in the back end of the shop and stepped out and directly defendant came out and went to the depot, ahead of witness; that when witness went into the freight room defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Conviction of violating the local option law, punishment being assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
The indictment was found by the grand jury, and the district court made proper order" transferring same to the county court of Collin County. Appellant made a motion to quash the transcript of the clerk of the district court, because it fails to state the date the district court adjourned. The transcript in this respect reads, as follows: “The State of Texas, County of Collin. At a term of the district court begun and holden within and for the…
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