Culpepper v. State

ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant was convicted on September 14, 1982, in a bench trial of transporting beer and whiskey in a dry area in violation of Tex.Alco.Bev.Code Ann., Sec. 101.31 (Vernon 1978). Punishment was assessed at a fine of five hundred ($500.00) dollars. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Supreme Judicial District reversed appellant’s conviction after determining that the information charging her was fundamentally defective. We granted the State’s Petition for Discretionary Review to determine whether the information in the case sub judice…