in
said County,which electionresultedin legalizingthe sale of such beverages.
"Pleaeebe kind enoughto adviseme whetheror not aaid PrecinctNo. Two shouldbe classeda8 a wet area or a dry area."
Subsection(c) of Section20 of ArticleXVI expresslyetatee that the sale of alcoholicbeveragescontainingnot more than 3.2 per cent alcoholby weight shall not be prohibitedin politicalsubdivisions which had ~votedto legalizeeuch eale. This languageis quotedas fol- lows: . . . . providedthat this subsectionshall not prohibit the sale of alcoholicbeveragescontainingnot more than 3.2 per cent alcoholby weight in cities,countieeor political subdivieions thereof in which the qualifiedvotershave voted to legalizesuch sale under the provieionsof Chapter11.6, Acts of the Regular Sessionof the 43rd Legislature."
In additionto Article 666-23,Vernon'sPenal Code, already quoted,the Texas LiquorControlAct containeda furtherprovisionwith regardto local option status. This provisionia Article II, Section 2 of the above Act, codifi,ed as Articl~e 667-2 of Vernon'sPenal Code and is,,in.part, as follows: 1% . . .
"lr.s,hallcontinueto be unlawfulto manufacture,sell, 'barter, or exchangein any county,,justice precinct,or in- :cc,porated ,z:j,ty or town any beer ex-ept in counties,justice pI-eCl.nCt,B, or incorporated ci.t!,esor towns whereinthe voters thereofhad not 3y local optionelections held ,ILnder the l~awsof the State of Texas a,n,d. in,force at the rime of taking effect of Section20, Arttrl~e 1.6of the Consti- tu+ion of Texas in,.1919;exceptthat '.ncounties,juet;ice pre- !'3nct. 8) or in.~o:rporwt.ed cit.i.esCITfown8wherei,n a majorit~y of the v&em h,ii,ve voted tro legdiw :.hesale of beer in accord- ar;.ze wit.'rt~h~1.oca.l optiorl,prov,;sions of Chapter1.16,Acts cf the Regu.:.ar Sessi,c:n of the Forty-t,hird Legislature,or in ac- cr,,rdance vi?h the 7,:) :a1 opt.:on prr,vi,si~+ns, 32 t,o 40, sect';.:,xs I,:,.?l !58~i,W)C,l.f Arki.,3e I:,'of ELolmeBill No. '7, General Iavs of T~.x~s,Se-on.:1 ~a,lle,d SessIw of t&t-. Fort:?-Pourt:L: :~?g,lElat 'r:re , i;rar:,v as hereIn def?.ned may be manu- fac~tured, distributedan3 sold as hereinprovi.ded. e . ell Hon. c. A. Pounds,page 8 (v-262)
This provieion,aa does the constitutionalamendmentof 1935, recognizesthe BtatuB of those Bubdivieionswhich had legalized3.2 beer under the 1933 amendmentof the TeXaB Constitution.
We direct your attentionto the case of Tilleraonv. State, decidedby the Court of CriminalAppeals in 1942, and reportedin 159 s. w. (2d) 502. In this caee, a county-widelocal option electionhad legalizedthe sale of 3.2 per cent beer in the county. The court used thia language:
"The definitionof a 'dryarea' and of a 'wetarea' Seem to be relativeterma a8 Bet out in Subdivision23 of Art. 666, Vernon'sAnnotatedPenal Code, and from the facts stated in the foregoingquotationfrom the court's qualificationof the bill it would appearto be the cor- rect conclusionthat Dallas County is a 'dryarea' &B to the Bale of whiskeyand other alcoholicbeveragescon- tainingmore than 3.2 per cent alcoholby weight. At the Bame time, it is a 'wetarea' a8 to beer and those liq- UOrB which do not containmore then 3.2 per cent of al- coholby weight.'
In the case of Whitmirev. State, 94 S. W. (2d) 742, the Court of CriminalAppeals,speakingthroughJudge Hawkins,said:
"We call.attentionof proaecutoraand trial judges to tae fart ,that: the descriptionin the indictmentor in- furmationof'the i.iq:i