Watts v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Presidio. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Slaughter. The conviction in this case was for keeping a disorderly house, and the penalty imposed by the verdict was a fine of two hundred dollars.
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Appeal from the District Court of Presidio. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Slaughter. The conviction in this case was for keeping a disorderly house, and the penalty imposed by the verdict was a fine of two hundred dollars. It was incontestibly proved, on the part of the State, that the defendant was the proprietor of a saloon situated in the town of Fort Davis, Texas, and that a dance hall and certain attached buildings and an unattached building, occupied by notorious prostitutes, were under his proprietorship, he receiving money from the said prostitutes in payment of rent for the rooms…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
This conviction is for keeping a disorderly house. The defendant, by a special plea, challenged the right of the court to try the cause at the town of Marfa, alleging that said town was not the county site of Presidio county, but that Fort Davis was the county site of said county. This plea set forth at length the facts relating to the county site question in said county, and by those facts it is shown that, at the time of the trial of this cause, it was claimed by the county judge and other officials of said county that the said town of Marfa was the legal county site of said…
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