Decker v. State

HURT, Presiding Judge.

Conviction for violating the local option law. It appears from the record that two elections had been held in Johnson County. The first election resulted in favor of prohibition. The second election resulted the same way. The Commissioners Court, when they counted the vote cast on the second election, found that it was in favor of prohibition, biit failed and refused to declare the result and prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors. It is not denied by appellant that the first election was held regularly, and that prohibition carried. But it is contended that, because…