Case ID: sw2d_211/html/0222-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILLIAMS v. STATE.
    No. 23999.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 7, 1948.
    Rehearing Denied May 19, 1948.
    Billy Hall, of Littlefield, for appellant.
    Ernest S. Goens, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for the unlawful possession of whisky for the purpose of sale in Lamb County, a dry area; the punishment, a fine of $500.

To sustain the conviction it was incumbent upon the State to show the dry status of Lamb County. This the State failed to do, because there is no testimony showing the publication, as required by law, of the order declaring the result of the election and putting local option into effect. Such proof is necessary to show a dry area. Green v. State, 131 Tex.Cr.R. 552, 101 S. W.2d 241; Murray v. State, 134 Tex.Cr.R. 242, 115 S.W.2d 407; Trapp v. State, 145 Tex.Cr.R. 235, 167 S.W.2d 525; Langston v. State, 146 Tex.Cr.R. 35, 171 S.W.2d 371.

Beoause the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction, the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.

PER CURIAM.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals a.nd approved by the court.