Adams v. State

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for preventing a person from engaging in a lawful vocation, punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

The prosecution is under the Act of the 47th Legislature, 1941, H. B. No. 800, which appears in the Cumulative Pocket Part of Vol. 3, Vernon’s Texas P. C., as Art. 1621b.

Omitting formal parts, the indictment alleged that appellant “did by use of force and violence, attempt to prevent and did prevent Brantley Finch from engaging in a lawful vocation, to-wit, salesman on a bread route, at Channelview, Harris County, Texas, as an employee of Paul’s…