Morton v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Hunt. Tried below before Hon. W. H. Ragsdale, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for violating local option; penalty, a fine of $35, and twenty days’ imprisonment in the county jail. Defendant pleaded former acquittal. The material facts are shown by the evidence of W. W. Jones, and the defendant, who testified as a witness in his own behalf.
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Appeal from the County Court of Hunt. Tried below before Hon. W. H. Ragsdale, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for violating local option; penalty, a fine of $35, and twenty days’ imprisonment in the county jail. Defendant pleaded former acquittal. The material facts are shown by the evidence of W. W. Jones, and the defendant, who testified as a witness in his own behalf. The State proved by W. W. Jones that he knew the defendant, Ed Morton, on the 25th of August, 1895; that on or about that date in Precinct Ho. 5, of Hunt County, Texas, he bought a pint bottle of beer from the…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Conviction for selling beer to W. W. ■Jones, in Precinct No. 5, Hunt County, local option being in force in said precinct. The State did not introduce any evidence as to the local option election being held in said precinct. The order for the election, the order declaring the result of the election, or the publication thereof, were not introduced in evidence. The defendant, in his testimony, admitted, in effect, that local option was in force in said precinct when this transaction, claimed to be a sale by the, State, occurred. This testimony could have been excluded at…
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