Renfro v. State

Appellant was convicted for unlawfully and knowingly permitting to be kept a disorderly house, his punishment being assessed at a fine of $200 and twenty days imprisonment in the county jail.

There are quite a number of questions suggested in bills of exception why this judgment should be reversed. Two of them are stressed in the brief. The case was tried in one of the Criminal District Courts of Dallas County, which seems to have jurisdiction, under the Act of the Legislature, to try misdemeanors.

The jury was composed of twelve men. The judgment shows that ten of the twelve signed the…