Case Name: Hub Bowers v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1938-02-16
Citations: 133 Tex. Crim. 606
Docket Number: No. 19433
Parties: Hub Bowers v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 133
Pages: 606–607

Head Matter:
Hub Bowers v. The State.
No. 19433.
Delivered February 16, 1938.
The opinion states the case.
E. G. Pharr, of Cooper, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge. —
The offense is possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale in a dry area; the punishment, a fine of $100.
There is no evidence in the record in support of the averments in the complaint and information that a local option election had been held in Delta County; that said election had resulted in the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquor; that the result had been duly declared and published by the commissioners' court. Appellant's contention that, in the absence of such proof, the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction must be sustained. Green v. State, 101 S. W. (2d) 241.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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.