Boyd v. State

OPINION

JOE L. DRAUGHN, Justice (Assigned).

Stanford S. Boyd, appellant, was found guilty by a City of Houston municipal judge of offering to sell a ticket to a Houston Rockets game without a valid itinerant vendor’s license. The municipal court ordered him to pay a $100 fine. All City of Houston municipal courts since 1976 are courts of record. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 30.00672(a) (Vernon Supp.1999).

Boyd appealed his conviction to the Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 1. This appeal to the county criminal court at law is not by trial de novo. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 30.00679(b)…