Wright v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Conviction is for possessing for the purpose of sale intoxicating liquor in dry area, punishment assessed being a fine of one hundred dollars.

By complaint and information appellant and his wife, Mrs. Bob Wright, were jointly charged with the foregoing offense in Young County, alleged to be dry area by virtue of an election held in 1896. Appellant was alone upon trial.

The case must be reversed upon the facts. The Blue Tavern was a frame building fifty feet wide and eighty feet long, the entire north side of which was used by Mrs. Wright for a dining room and dance pavilion. In…