Threadgill v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This case arose in the corporation court of the city of Houston. Upon his conviction in that court for the violation of an ordinance of that city prohibiting the sale of fireworks within five thousand feet of the corporate limits of said city, appellant appealed to the County Court at Law No. 2 of Harris County, where he was again convicted, with punishment assessed at a fine of $200.

This appeal is from that conviction.

The prosecution in both courts was upon complaint charging, in effect, that appellant “within the area of 5,000 feet immediately adjacent and contiguous to the…