Bennett v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was charged with keeping open his place of business on Sunday; that he was following the business of á retail liquor dealer; that such place was kept open for the purpose of traffic on Sunday.
The record is without a statement of facts. Motion was made to quash because the Sunday law is in violation of article' 16, section 20, of the Constitution, commonly known as the "local option-section” of the Constitution. The decisions are all the other way in this State. And second, because the Sunday law was suspended as to a licensed liquor dealer by reason of the…
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