Case ID: tex-crim_57/html/0001-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BROOKS, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

OCTOBER, 1909.
    Bud Brown v. The State.
    No. 25.
    Decided December 9, 1908.
    Rehearing denied October 13, 1909.
    Election law — Advancing Money to Pay Poll Tax — Constitutional law.
    The so-called Terrell Election Law, which makes it a misdemeanor for any one to advance money to another to pay his poll tax, is constitutional. Following Solon v. State, 54 Texas Grim. Rep., 261.
    [Rehearing denied October 13, 1909. Writ of error granted to Supreme Court of the United States, October 25, 1909. The action of said court will be noted in a subsequent volume of these reports.— Reporter.]
    Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. B. F. Milam.
    Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the election law; penalty, a fine of $300 and sixty days confinement in the county jail.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      McCart, Bowlin & McCart and McLean & Scott, for appellant.
    
      F. J. McCord, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
   BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the Terrell Election Law by advancing money to pay poll tax, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $300 and sixty days imprisonment in the county jail.

The question involved in this record was passed upon by us in the case of Solon v. State, 54 Texas Crim. Rep., 261, decided at the recent Austin term of this court. We have had no reason to change our opinion there expressed as to the law of that case. Upon the authority of that case the judgment herein is in all things affirmed.

Affirmed.