Murphy v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Fannin. Tried below before the Hon. Ben H. Denton. Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully pursuing the business of selling intoxicating liquors in local option territory; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
McCORD, Judge.
Appellant was convicted for pursuing the business of selling intoxicating liquors in the county of Fannin, after the people had adopted local option, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
The indictment in this case charges that the defendant on or about the 28th day of December, 1909, “did then and there unlawfully and not as .permitted by law, engage in and pursue the occupation and business of selling intoxicating liquors without having been either permitted or authorized by law to sell intoxicating liquor in said Fannin County and…
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