Coats v. State
This text of 89 S.W. 836 (Coats v. State) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, his punishment being fixed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The facts show that appellant, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, where local option was in force, took an order from prosecutor for a half gallon of whisky; and at the time he was acting as the agent of Doggett, who lived at Lufkin, Angelina County. The order provided that the goods were to be shipped C. O. D. by Doggett from Lufkin. After the order was taken, the half gallon of whisky was shipped by express C. O. D. from Lufkin to prosecutor at Nacogdoches, where prosecutor paid for the whisky and the charges to the express company. Under the decisions of the majority of the court in Sedgwick v. State, 12 Texas Ct. Rep., 455; and Keller v. State, 13 Texas Ct. Rep., 264, this is not a sale in Nacogdoches County, and is not a violation of the local option law in that county. Accordingly the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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