Lindsey v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Young. Tried below before the Honorable E. W. Fry. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
McCORD, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for violating the local option law, the punishment assessed being twenty days imprisonment in the county jail and a fine of $25.
The State through her assistant attorney-general has filed a motion to dismiss this appeal because of a defective recognizance. The recognizance states that “the said W. C. Lindsey, who stands charged in this court with the offense of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors in prohibited district and who has been convicted of said offense.” The recognizance should have stated that the defendant had been convicted of a…
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