Segars v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Brown. Tried below before Hon. Charles Hogan, County Judge. This appeal is from a conviction for keeping a “blind tiger,” wherein the punishment was assessed at imprisonment for two months in the county jail and a fine of $100. Omitting formal averments, the charge in the information was that, “On or about the 6th day of September, 1894, in the said County of Brown, and in the subdivision hereinafter described, of said county and State of…
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Appeal from the County Court of Brown. Tried below before Hon. Charles Hogan, County Judge. This appeal is from a conviction for keeping a “blind tiger,” wherein the punishment was assessed at imprisonment for two months in the county jail and a fine of $100. Omitting formal averments, the charge in the information was that, “On or about the 6th day of September, 1894, in the said County of Brown, and in the subdivision hereinafter described, of said county and State of Texas, one John Segars, late of said county and State, with force and arms, did then and there unlawfully keep and run, and…
1Opinion of the CourtDavidson, Judge
Appellant was tried under an information charging him with keeping a “blind tiger,” was convicted by the jury and his punishment assessed at two months in the county jail, and afine of $100, and from the judgment of the lower court he prosecutes his appeal. The information in this case charges that the defendant, in a certain local option precinct (describing it), “did then and there unlawfully and wilfully keep and run, and was then and there interested in keeping and running, a ‘blind tiger’ for the purpose of selling intoxicating liquors; that he did then and there sell to John Baugh…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Irish v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1895
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- Lewellen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1908
- Venn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1919
- Irvine v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909
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