Legal Opinion

McElroy v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 19, 1898No. 1898PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from the County Court of Cherokee. Tried below before Hon. S. B. Barron, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for violating the local option stock law;, penalty, a fine of $25. Ho statement necessary.

1Opinion of the Court

DAVIDS OH, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for unlawfully and willfully turning out, and causing to be turned out, on lands not his own, and for failing to keep up, certain hogs, and allowing them to trespass upon the lands of another, in Cherokee County, after the local option, stock law had been put into operation in said county by a vote of the people of said county. The statute under which the law was put into operation authorized the party whose property was trespassed upon to impound the stock so trespassing. Such was the law when the people of said' county voted it into existence. This…

2Cited by14 opinions

  1. Lewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1910
  2. Gearheart v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1917
  3. Coleman v. HallumTexas Commission of Appeals · 1921
  4. Rodriguez v. RichmondCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1950
  5. Ward v. Board of Co. Com'rs, Okfuskee Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1926

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