Case Name: H. G. Cottar v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-02-28
Citations: 81 Tex. Crim. 659
Docket Number: No. 4370
Parties: H. G. Cottar v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 81
Pages: 659–660

Head Matter:
H. G. Cottar v. The State.
No. 4370.
Decided February 28, 1917.
Final Opinion October 22, 1917.
Sunday Law — Companion Case.
Where appellant was convicted of a violation of the Sunday law, for exhibiting in a place for amusement a moving picture show on Sunday, and the question raised as to the invalidity of the law was adversely t decided against appellant in a companion case, t'he judgment must be affirmed. Davidson, Presiding Judge, dissenting.
Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. Jesse M. Brown.
Appeal from a violation of the Sunday law; penalty, a fine of twenty-five dollars.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
E. B. Hendricks, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
This conviction was for violation of article 303, P. C., wherein appellant was convicted for exhibiting in a place of amusement a moving picture show on Sunday. The majority of the court have held the law constitutional and valid in the Zucarro case, this day decided. I can npt concur in will write later for my non-concurrence and file in the Zucarro case. Under the authority of that case this judgment will be affirmed.
[Final dissenting opinion October 22, 1917. — Reporter.]
Affirmed.