Ferguson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. George H. Denton. Appeal from a conviction of permitting lewd women on the premises of a retail liquor dealer; penalty, a fine of $500 and six months confinement in the county jail.
1Opinion of the Court
PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.
In this case appellant was prosecuted under Penal Code, article 626, for permitting lewd women on his premises, he being a retail malt liquor dealer. His punishment was fixed at a fine of $500 and six months imprisonment in jail. After the formal part the complaint and information charge that in said State and county on or about March 26, 1913, appellant “who was then and there a retail malt dealer, engaged in and pursuing the occupation of selling malt liquor exclusively, capable of producing intoxication, in quantities of one gallon and less, at his place of…
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