Sullivan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. T. F. Nash, County Judge. Appellant was prosecuted by information for unlawfully engaging in a performance of prize-fighting, an occupation taxable by law, without first having procured a license therefor; and at his trial was found guilty, with his punishment assessed at a fine of $500. A statement of the facts is unnecessary.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of engaging, with one Bob McGhee, on January 12, 1893, in a performance taxable by law,to-wit, a fight between man and man, without first obtaining a license therefor; and he was fined in the sum of $500, from which judgment he appeals.
The prosecution is under the Act of 1889, which declares that an occupation tax of $500 shall be imposed as a State tax upon every performance where there is a fight between man and man, or man and bulls, or dogs and bulls, etc. This law, however, has been changed by the Act of March 23, 1891, which directly prohibits…
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