Lyle v. State

(dissenting).—Judge Harper in Ex parte Francis, 72 Texas Crim. Rep., 304, 165 S. W. Rep., 147, and Ex parte Mode, 77 Texas Crim. Rep., 432, 180 S. W. Rep., 708, has so completely, both on reason and on authority, demonstrated the constitutionality of our pool hall law, it is entirely useless for me to again discuss the question. In my judgment, the opinions by him in those cases are unanswered and unanswerable. If my brethren are not convinced by those great opinions, and by the opinions of the great judges and courts of every other State in the United States cited by him, then “neither will…