Cone v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Rockwall. Tried below before the Honorable Joel R. Bond. Appeal from a conviction under the local option law for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. —Cited: Mclnturf v. State, 20 Texas Crim. App., 235; Colloway v. State, 7 id., 585.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The conviction is for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor..
The indictment filed on the 14th day of October, 1919, charges appellant with the sale of intoxicating liquor in Rockwall County, where such sale was prohibited by a vote of the people.
The statute under which the prosecution is had is Article 597, Vernon’s Texas Crim. Statutes, Vol. 1, p. 306. It was enacted to punish violations of the Rocal Option Prohibition Raw, Article 16, Sec. 20, of the Constitution of the State. Under that provision of the Constitution. it was optional with certain subdivisions of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cone v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
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