Case ID: sw2d_267/html/0414-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, Commissioner. MORRISON,' judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RILEY v. STATE.
    No. 26870.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 10, 1954.
    Rehearing Denied April 28, 1954.
    No attorney on appeal, for appellant.
    Wesley Dice, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
   DAVIDSON, Commissioner.

The sale of whisky in a dry area is the offense; the -punishment, a fine of $200 and thirty -days in jail;

The recprd before us contains no statement of facts, without which the bill of exception cannot be considered.

The judgment is affirmed.

‘Opinion approved by the court.

On Motion for Rehearing

MORRISON,' judge.

Appellant now asserts that a fatal variance exists between the complaint and the information in that the complaint alleges a primary offense-while the information contains allegations as to two prior convictions to enhance the punishment.

The. trial was held November 27, 1953. On the same day the county attorney filed his written request to abandon the counts in the information alleging the prior convictions and asking that he be allowed to proceed to trial on the .charge set forth in the first paragraph therein. This request was granted by the court in writing. There is no showing that the second and third paragraphs of the information were seen by or read to the jury.

Remaining convinced that we properly disposed of this cause originally, appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.