Talley v. State

HARPER, Judge.

That we may intelligently pass on the first question presented, it may be stated that Coryell County had adopted prohibition, and a retail liquor dealer could not obtain license to sell intoxicating liquors in Coryell County under the provisions of chapter 17, Act of the Thirty-Eirst Legislature, known as the Robertson-Eitzhugh law, for in section 1 of said Act it is provided, that licenses under said law may be issufed only in counties, or subdivision of a county, justice precinct, city or town where local option is not in force.

Hamilton County in April last, at the date of the…