Scott v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the unlawful sale of whisky in a dry area; penalty assessed at a fine of $300.00 and confinement in the county jail for thirty days.

The first count of the information upon which the prosecution is founded avers that appellant sold one-half pint of whisky in Coryell County, “the sale of such liquor in said county, a dry area, having been theretofore and was then prohibited in said county by the laws of the State.”

The mere averment in the information that the alleged offense took place in a “dry area” does not comply with the requisites of the law in cases…