Case ID: sw2d_210/html/0584-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GRAVES, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MOORE v. STATE.
    No. 24015.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 28, 1948.
    No appearance for appellant.
    Ernest S. Goens, State’s- Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with drunkenness in a public place, and under allegations that he was a.third offender he was fined the sum of $400 and he appeals.

Article 61, P.C., provides that upon a third or any subsequent conviction for the same misdemeanor offense, the punishment shall be increased so as not to exceed four times the penalty in ordinary cases. Therefore, the jury were within the law when they gave appellant the $400 fine.

There are no bills of exception in the record.

The judgment will be affirmed..