Legal Opinion

Mizell v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 4, 1910No. 526PublishedCited by 34 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before the Honorable J. S. Woods. Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully pursuing the occupation of selling intoxicating liquors in local option territory; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

McCORD, Judge.

Appellant was tried and convicted in the court below under an indictment charging him with the offense of unlawfully engaging in and pursuing the occupation and business of selling intoxicating liquors in violation of the law in the county of Kaufman, which had theretofore adopted local option, which was in force at the time of the offense alleged, the indictment being drawn under the provisions of the Act of the Thirty-first Legislature making it a felony for a person to engage in or pursue the occupation and business of a retail dealer in local option territory. There were two…

2Cited by34 opinions

  1. Slack v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1911
  2. Byrd v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1912
  3. Creech v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913
  4. Alexander v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918
  5. Gearheart v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1917

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