Case ID: tex-crim_165/html/0385-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORRISON, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Leonard Kilburn, Jr. v. State
    No. 29,354.
    December 11, 1957.
    
      J. W. Reid, of Reid & Reid, Abilene, for appellant.
    
      Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.
   MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was convicted upon two counts of an information charging transportation and sale of whiskey in a dry area, with prior convictions alleged for enhancement; the punishment, 30 days in jail and a fine of $300.00 in each count.

Our able state’s attorney confesses error, and we agree. There was no evidence adduced, nor do we find a stipulation, concerning the dry status of the area where the offenses are alleged to have been committed.

It has been the consistent holding of this court that the dry status of the area must be proven or established by agreement of the parties. Weatherman v. State, 161 Texas Cr. Rep. 272, 276 S.W. 2d 524.

The judgment is reversed.