Jones v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Erath. Tried below before the Hon. M. J. Thompson. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $50 and forty days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the county court of Erath County on a complaint charging him with the sale of intoxicating liquors in violation of the local option law. There were two counts in the indictment. One count charging a sale to Ben Shields and J. R. Walker and the other charged a sale to Ben Shields. There was no election by the State, nor was an election by the State demanded. The case was tried before the court without the intervention of a jury.
Complaint is made, among other things, that this indictment is insufficient, in that the date of the alleged sale to Ben…
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