Curry v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. E. G-. Bower, County Judge. The penalty assessed against appellant was a fine of $25, and confinement in the county jail for twenty days.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from a conviction for a violation of the local option law.
It is insisted that the pretended local option law under which he has been convicted is absolutely void, because the election at which it was *476purported to be adopted was held at a time when such an election could not only not be held, but was actually prohibited by our law. In other words, that said pretended election was ordered to be held and was held more than thirty days from the date of the order of the Commissioners Court ordering the holding of the same. The evidence shows that the order for…
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