Brown v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Ellis. Tried below before Hon. J. C. Smith, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for a violation of the Sunday law; penalty, a fine of $20. The indictment charged appellant, an agent and employe of one H. 0. Rhodes, with both selling and keeping open a saloon for the purpose of traffic and sale of liquor on Sunday. Defendant’s motion to quash the indictment for duplicity was overruled. The opinion contains a sufficient statement of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Article 199, Penal Code 1895, provides: "Any merchant, grocer, or dealer in wares or merchandise, or trader in any business whatsoever, or the proprietor of any place of public amusement, or the agent or employe of any such person, who shall sell, barter, or permit his place of business or place of public amusement to be open for the purpose of traffic or public amusement on Sunday, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars,” etc. Appellant was charged as agent and employe of H. 0. Rhodes, who was conducting a saloon business, with unlawfully and…
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