Case ID: sw_136/html/1198-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BENSON v. STATE.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 8, 1911.
    Rehearing Denied April 19, 1911.)
    Appeal from Johnson County Court; J. B. Haynes, Judge. John Benson was convicted of crime, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Phillips & Bledsoe, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   PRENDERGAST, J.

By complaint and information the appellant was charged to have unlawfully sold intoxicating liquors on July 4, 1910, in Johnson county, which county had theretofore .properly voted for prohibition, and it had been so declared. He waived a jury and pleaded guilty. He was fined $50 and given 20 days in' jail. There is no statement of facts or bill of exceptions. A motion for new trial was made, but the only ground thereof is because the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence. The judgment is affirmed.