Dunn v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Hood. Tried below before Hon. K. H. Faulkner. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Conviction of violating the local option law—punishment- imposed being a fine of $25 and twenty days in jail. The facts disclose that Becker Bros., residing in Kansas City, Missouri, shipped to appellant at Toler, Texas, a box containing four quarts of whisky; that appellant knew nothing about the shipment until it reached its point of destination at Toler. Tidwell and some other young men ascertaining the goods were in the express office, wanted the whisky and gave appellant the money to pay the necessary charges to get same out of the express office. -Appellant…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Treadaway v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1901
3Cited by3 opinions
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