Stephens v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $30 and thirty days confinement in the county jail.

Appellant complains that the State was permitted to introduce the proceedings of two local option elections, one held in the year 1901, and the other in 1904. The grounds of objection are that the indictment did not properly allege which particular election would be relied on, and because two years had not elapsed between said elections. Neither of these grounds of objection is well taken. We have heretofore held that the…