Maddox v. State
This text of 60 S.W. 960 (Maddox 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 for violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The indictment charges that an election was held in precinct number 2 of Brath County, which resulted in favor of local option, “and thereafter, and anterior to the. presentment of this indictment, to wit, on or about the 16th day of October, A. D. 1899, L. H. Maddox did unlawfully sell to J. H. Cook one drink of whisky, in violation of said law, against the peace and dignity of the State.” This indictment is attacked because it fails to charge that appellant sold the whisky within the prohibited bounds; that is, within the confines of said precinct number 2. The point is well taken. Before an indictment charging this offense is valid, it must allege the sale of the intoxicants occurred within the local option territory. The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.
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