Case ID: sw2d_115/html/0961-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SPEARS v. STATE.
    No. 19668.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 27, 1938.
    Oswalt & Oswalt, of Crowell, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for selling intoxicating liquor in dry territory; punishment being a fine of $100.

It was alleged that the sale was made in Foard county, Tex., and that said county was dry as the result of an election held therein on October 23, 1937. The averments as to the election, result thereof, and publication, are found in the complaint and information, but no proof supporting such averments is in the record.

It is appellant’s position that in the absence of proof that Foard county was dry territory the judgment of conviction cannot stand. His contention is supported by Humphreys v. State, 131 Tex.Cr.R. 383, 99 S.W.2d 600; Green v. State, 131 Tex.Cr.R. 552, 101 S.W.2d 241; Gribble v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 111 S.W.2d 276.

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.