Thompson v. State

128 S.W. 382, 59 Tex. Crim. 277, 1910 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 288

Opinion

RAMSEY, Judge.

This case is identical with that of Lewis v. State, from Hill County, in which we held recently that the Act of the Thirty-first Legislature fixing the punishment as for a felony for the sale of intoxicating liquors did not apply in counties which had adopted the law before the passage of the Act. In this case it appears that local option was adopted in Delta County some years before the passage of the Act in question. It, therefore, results that the District Court had no jurisdiction to try the case, and its judgment convicting for a felony can not be sustained. It is, therefore, ordered that the judgment of conviction be and the same is hereby reversed with instructions to the District Court to transfer the case to the County Court of Delta County for trial according to law.

Reversed and remanded.