Legal Opinion

Davis v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 24, 1920No. 5777PublishedCited by 32 opinions

Appeal from the County Court of Bell. Tried below before the Honorable M. B. Blair. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the pool hall law defined by the terms of Chapter XIV. Section .1, Acts of the Thirty-sixth Legislature; penalty, a fine of twenty-five dollars. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

LATTIMORE, Judge.

The caption of the transcript in this case is as follows:

“The State of Texas County of Bell

At the February Term of the County Court, begun and holden at Belton, within and for the county of Bell, before the Honorable M. B. Blair, County Judge, the following ease, among others, came on for trial, to-wit:

The State of Texas

No. 566 vs.

J. A. Davis.”

It is impossible for us to tell whether the transcript, of which the foregoing is the caption, contains the record of the trial during any particular year, as no date appears anywhere in the caption; nor is it there stated when the term…

2Cited by32 opinions

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  3. Mercer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1928
  4. Dellinger v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1930
  5. Katz v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1932

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