Dixon v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. O. E. Dunlap, County Judge. The conviction in this case was for a violation of the local option law, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of fifty dollars.
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
A question as to the sufficiency of the indictment is presented in the record, which is not free from difficulty. The question is, is it essential, in an indictment for the offense of selling intoxicating liquor in violation of the “local option” law, to allege the name of the person to whom the liquor was sold, or, in case the name of such person was unknown to the grand jurors, to allege that fact? In Sedberry v. The State, 14 Texas Court of Appeals, 238, and in McMillan v. The State, 18 Texas Court of Appeals, 375, indictments which did. not contain any allegation as to the…
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