Holland v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The information, after setting out formal parts, alleged that defendant was then and there duly and legally licensed to engage in and pursue the occupation and business of selling spirituous, vinous and malt liquors and medicated liquors capable of producing intoxication, in quantities of one quart and less upon the prescription of a regular practicing physician, in full compliance with law, and at said time the sale of intoxicating liquor had been previously prohibited…
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The information, after setting out formal parts, alleged that defendant was then and there duly and legally licensed to engage in and pursue the occupation and business of selling spirituous, vinous and malt liquors and medicated liquors capable of producing intoxication, in quantities of one quart and less upon the prescription of a regular practicing physician, in full compliance with law, and at said time the sale of intoxicating liquor had been previously prohibited under the laws of said State in said county, which said laws were at said time in full force and effect, and the said T. H.…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSOF, Pbesiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted for violation of the amended act of 1903, pages 55 and 56, which requires parties selling intoxicants on prescriptions in local option territories, to file with the clerk on the first day of the succeeding month all prescription filled by the seller during the previous month, and the direct charge is that appellant failed and refused to file with the proper clerk prescriptions that he filled during the month of March, 1906.
The information is attacked upon the theory that it charges no offense against the laws of the State, it does not charge a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Snead v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1899
3Cited by2 opinions
- Kauffman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1908
- Hughes v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1912