Poteet v. State

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for hunting deer at night with the use of an artificial light, punishment assessed being a fine of fifty dollars.

The cause in which appellant was convicted bore the trial court number of 726, and was based upon a complaint and information which were filed in the County Court of Zavala County on the 2d day of February, 1939. They charged that appellant on or about November 1, 1938 hunted deer by the aid of a “headlight and artificial light.”

When this cause was called for trial appellant interposed a plea of former acquittal in which he averred that in…