Case Name: Bill Prince v. State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1952-02-20
Citations: 157 Tex. Crim. 47
Docket Number: No. 25716
Parties: Bill Prince v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 157
Pages: 47–47

Head Matter:
Bill Prince v. State.
No. 25716.
February 20, 1952.
Hon. Walter S. Pope, Jr., Judge Presiding.
A. R. Archer, Jr., and George W. Overshiner (of Counsel: Archer, Bryant & Overshiner), Abilene, for appellant.
Wm. K. Tippen, County Attorney, Abilene, and George P. Blackburn, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.

Opinion:
BEAUCHAMP, Judge.
Appellant was convicted for the sale of beer in a dry area, to-wit, Taylor County, Texas, and assessed a fine of $500.00 and one year in jail.
The complaint and information in the case properly present the issue of the dry status of Taylor County. In the progress of the trial defendant declined to waive proof and admit the dry status of the county. The county attorney twice brought up the question of proof and eventually he called the county clerk and had certain records of the commissioners' court identified and they were referred to as petition, election returns, etc. These do not appear in the statement of facts and there is no proof supporting the court's charge to the jury that it is a dry county.
For this reason the judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause is remanded.