Bassett v. State

GRAVES, JUDGE.

Appellant was convicted of an offense relative to the proper registration of a motor vehicle, and fined the sum of $25.00, hence this appeal.

Article 804 of the Penal Code reads as follows: “Whoever operates upon any public highway a motor vehicle which has not been registered as required by law shall be fined not to exceed two hundred dollars.”

In order to find that which is required by law relative to the registration of such automobiles we are relegated to the civil statutes. Article 6675a-2 of Vernon’s Ann. Civil Statutes, reads as follows: “Every owner of a motor vehicle,…