Earnest v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The charging part of the indictment is as follows: That Dan Earnest, on the 15th day of November, 1916, in the County of Motley and State of Texas, “did then and there unlawfully and knowingly give and cause to be given spirituous, vinous and intoxicating liquor to Hattie Williams, then and there being under the age of twenty-one years, without the written consent of the parent or guardian or of someone standing in the place and stead of parent or guardian of her, the said -, against the peace and dignity of the State.”

Motion was made to quash as well as in arrest of…