Bush v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

—The prosecution proceeded under Section 68, Chapter 88, Acts 35th Legislature, Regular Session 1917, Page 227. Conviction with punishment assessed at a fine of $125 resulted.

The Act referred to was a general irrigation law. Section 68 thereof is carried forward in the “Complete Texas Statutes” 1920 as Article 837d, which reads as follows:

“Any person who shall wilfully open, close, change or interfere with any headgate or water box without lawful authority or who shall wilfully use water or conduct water in and through his ditch or upon his land, to which water he is not…