Case Name: WALKER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1943-05-19
Citations: 171 S.W.2d 887
Docket Number: No. 22506
Parties: WALKER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 171
Pages: 887–889

Head Matter:
WALKER v. STATE.
No. 22506.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 19. 1943.
Rehearing Denied June 9, 1943.
Cunningham, Boling & Cooke, of Lubbock, for appellant.
Spurgeon E. Bell, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This is a case of selling whisky in a dry area in violation of law; the punishment, a fine of $100.
An agent of the Texas Liquor Control Board testified that the appellant sold him a pint of whisky, as alleged in the information. The jury was authorized to believe the testimony of the agent, notwithstanding appellant's denial thereof. Its verdict is, therefore, sustained.
The information, upon which this prosecution was maintained, was based upon a complaint sworn to before the Assistant County Attorney of Lubbock County, Texas.
Upon the trial of this case, appellant, by motion, sought to quash the complaint because the county attorney in whose name the assistant county attorney presented the information, as well as the assistant before whom the complaint was sworn to, were not such officers in fact, but, to the contrary, said officers were holding such offices without authority of law. Appellant sought thereby to attack, collaterally, the right of said officers to hold their respective offices and to perform the duties appertaining to which the assistant county attorney was performing.
A quo warranto proceeding is the exclusive remedy to test the right of an officer to hold office. Snow v. State, Tex. Cr.App., 114 S.W.2d 898. It may not be done by an accused upon the trial of his case.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
PER CURIAM.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.