Bumbaugh v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. J. W. Hassell. Appeal from a conviction of keeping a disorderly house; penalty, a fine of $200 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
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Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. J. W. Hassell. Appeal from a conviction of keeping a disorderly house; penalty, a fine of $200 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The testimony for the State showed that the defendant sold whisky, and that the general reputation of the place where defendant stayed was that it was a place where spirituous, vinous and malt liquors were kept for sale and were sold; that the officers found a lot of whisky and beer in defendant’s and another’s possession; that the defendant had no license to sell such liquors;, there…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of running a disorderly house, and Ms punishment assessed at a fine of $200 and twenty days imprisonment in the county jail.
Bill of exceptions No. 2 complains of the following: After the sheriff had testified for the State that he and one Oscar Kirk had made a seizure of certain liquors under a search warrant properly issued, and had found appellant at the place sometime in October, 1907, about the time alleged in the indictment, defendant’s attorney asked the witness if at the certain trial following the search and seizure the evidence showed that the…
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