Galloway v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Burnet. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. Crews, County Judge. The conviction in this case was for the sale of whisky on Sunday, and the penalty imposed was a fine of thirty dollars. The disposition made of the appeal calls for no statement of the facts proved on the trial.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was indicted under Article 186 of the Penal Code for selling whisky on Sunday. The case was regularly transferred from the district to the county court for trial. He was tried and convicted in the county court. Amongst other defenses he pleaded to the jurisdiction of the county court, claiming that said court, under existing laws, had no authority to hear and determine the cause.
By Act of the Seventeenth Legislature, regular session 1881, chapter 19, pages 12 and 13, entitled “ An Act to diminish the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the county courts ” of…
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