Legal Opinion

Guild v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 7, 1916No. 4089PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Omitting formal allegations, the information alleged that Frank Guild was then and there the agent of the Terrell Cotton Oil Company, an incorporated company engaged in said State in the manufacture and sale of a concentrated commercial feeding stuff, towit, cottonseed cake,'and did then and there in said Hemphill County, Texas, as such agent sell to the Canadian Implement Company, an incorporated company, ten bags of said cottonseed cake, each bag containing said cake…

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Omitting formal allegations, the information alleged that Frank Guild was then and there the agent of the Terrell Cotton Oil Company, an incorporated company engaged in said State in the manufacture and sale of a concentrated commercial feeding stuff, towit, cottonseed cake,'and did then and there in said Hemphill County, Texas, as such agent sell to the Canadian Implement Company, an incorporated company, ten bags of said cottonseed cake, each bag containing said cake containing a label thereon stating that said feeding stuff contained a substantially larger percentage of protein than was…

1Opinion of the Court

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating our pure feedstuff law, and the lowest punishment assessed. The record shows that what purports to be bills of exception and a statement of facts were filed in the lower court some'time after the adjournment of the term at which the conviction occurred without any order authorizing this to be done. The statute and the uniform decisions of this court are clearly to the effect "that under such circumstances in misdemeanor cases this court can consider none of them. Hence, the Assistant Attorney General’s motion to strike them out…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. VAUGHAN AND SONS INC. v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987
  2. Hamilton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1916
  3. Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion, Texas Attorney General Reports1969
  4. VAUGHAN AND SONS INC. v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987

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