Murchison v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. J. I. Perkins. The opinion sufficiently discloses the case. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of ten dollars.
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
In substance the information and complaint charge that the defendant was found in a state of intoxication in the grand jury room, the grand jury being in session in said room at the time, and that said grand jury room was then and there a public place. Exceptions to the information, and also a motion in arrest of judgment based upon the insufficiency of the information, were overruled.
It is contended by counsel for the defendant that, notwithstanding the information and complaint allege that the grand jury room was a public place, it also alleges a fact which shows that it was…
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