Baldwin v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan, The conviction in this case was for pursuing the occupation of selling the Illustrated Police Hews and the Police Gazette without having first paid the tax levied upon such occupation. The penalty assessed by the verdict was a fine of seven hundred and fifty dollars.
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
It is charged in the indictment that the defendant pursued and followed the occupation and business of selling and offering for sale the Illustrated Police Hews and the Police Gazette, without first paying the tax upon such occupation, etc. Defendant excepted to the sufficiency bf the indictment, because it did not allege that the papers sold or offered for sale were illustrated papers. This exception was properly overruled. The Illustrated Police Hews and the Police Gazette are papers which are specifically named in the statute, and it was therefore not necessary to further…
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