Legal Opinion

Cooper v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 14, 1959No. 30,309Published

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the sale of whiskey in a dry area; the punishment, a fine of $200.00.

Appellant plead guilty before the court without the intervention of a jury and cannot now be heard to complain that the state failed to prove the dry status of the area where the sale was *206made. A plea of guilty in a misdemeanor case admits the truth of each material averment in the information. Hunt v. State, 167 Texas Cr. Rep. 51, 317 S.W. 2d 743; Hinojosa v. State, 151 Texas Cr. Rep. 301, 206 S.W. 2d 1011; and Ex parte Clinnard, 145 Texas Cr. Rep. 460, 169 S.W. 2d 181.

The judgment…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Ex parte ClinnardCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1943
  2. Hunt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958
  3. Hinojosa v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1947

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