Case ID: sw2d_97/html/0472-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GRADY v. STATE.
    No. 18422.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 21, 1936.
    C. C. McKinney, of Cooper, and S. W. Pratt, of Commerce, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   MORROW, Judge.

The conviction is for violation of the so-called Local Option Law (Vernon’s Ann.P. C. art. 666 — 1 et seq.); penalty assessed at a fine of $100.

The complaint and information contain the averment that the appellant “did then and there unlawfully possess for the purpose of sale certain whiskey, in said Hunt Co., Texas, then and there being a dry area as defined by law.” The averment mentioned is insufficient to allege a violation of the law. See opinion of Judge Hawkins in the case of Whitmire v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 94 S.W.(2d) 742, to- the effect that the indictment or information must show that an election was held and that as a result thereof the act complained of was prohibited. See, also, Schmidt v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 94 S.W.(2d) 743.

Under the present complaint and information, the judgment must be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed. It is so ordered.