Case ID: tex-crim_81/html/0659-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

H. G. Cottar v. The State.
    No. 4370.
    Decided February 28, 1917.
    Final Opinion October 22, 1917.
    Sunday Law — Companion Case.
    Where appellant was convicted of a violation of the Sunday law, for exhibiting in a place for amusement a moving picture show on Sunday, and the question raised as to the invalidity of the law was adversely t decided against appellant in a companion case, t'he judgment must be affirmed. Davidson, Presiding Judge, dissenting.
    Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. Jesse M. Brown.
    Appeal from a violation of the Sunday law; penalty, a fine of twenty-five dollars.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief on file for appellant.
    
      E. B. Hendricks, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for violation of article 303, P. C., wherein appellant was convicted for exhibiting in a place of amusement a moving picture show on Sunday. The majority of the court have held the law constitutional and valid in the Zucarro case, this day decided. I can npt concur in will write later for my non-concurrence and file in the Zucarro case. Under the authority of that case this judgment will be affirmed.

[Final dissenting opinion October 22, 1917. — Reporter.]

Affirmed.