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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GALLOWAY v. STATE.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 5, 1913.)
    Intoxicating Liquobs (§ 236) — Violation of Local Option Law — Evidence.
    A conviction for selling intoxicating liquors in a county in violation of the prohibition law cannot be sustained, in the absence of evidence that local option was in force in the county.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Intoxicating Liquors, Cent. Dig. §§ 30CM522; Dee. Dig. § 236.]
    Appeal from Newton County Court; G. C. Colson, Judge.
    Dick Galloway was convicted of selling intoxicating liquors in local option territory, and he appeals.
    Reversed.
    Forse & Wigley, of Newton, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
    
      
      For other eases see same topic and section NUMBER in Dec. Dig. & Am. Dig. Key-No. Series & Rep’r Indexes
    
   HARPER, • J.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of selling intoxicating liquors in Newton county in violation of the prohibition law.

We have read the record carefully, and, if there was any proof offered that local option is in force in Newton county, they failed to indicate it in the record now before us.

The statement of facts contains no mention of whether or not local option was ever adopted in Newton county. Counsel presented a special charge instructing the jury that, as no proof had been offered showing that local option was in force in that county, to return a verdict of not guilty, and, if there was no more evidence adduced on the trial than is shown by this record, this charge should have been given.

Because there is no evidence showing that local option is in force in Newton county, the judgment is reversed, and the cause is remanded.