Case ID: sw2d_102/html/0215-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CAMPBELL v. STATE.
    No. 18821.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 24, 1937.
    Shropshire & Sanders, of Brady, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for violating the liquor law; punishment, a fine of $100.

Appellant was charged, with selling to J. M. Allison whisky in Brown county, Tex., the same being a dry area. Nothing in the complaint or information shows when and how, or in what manner, Brown county became a dry area. The complaint and information are insufficient. See Whitmire v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 94 S.W.(2d) 742; Schmidt v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 94 S.W. (2d) 743.

The judgment is reversed, and the prosecution' ordered dismissed.