Case Name: Bob Hail v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1905-12-06
Citations: 48 Tex. Crim. 514
Docket Number: No. 3190
Parties: Bob Hail v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 48
Pages: 514–514

Head Matter:
Bob Hail v. The State.
No. 3190.
Decided December 6, 1905.
Occupation Tax—local Option—license—Statutes Construed.
There is no statute authorizing a license for the occupation of selling malt liquor in a local option precinct; the license is for selling intoxicating liquors and the State tax thereon is not less than $200. A prosecution for pursuing the occupation of selling malt liquors without a license in a local option precinct is no offense known to the law.
Appeal from the. County Court of McLennan. Tried below before Hon. G. B. Gerald.
Appeal from a conviction of pursuing an occupation without license; penalty, ninety days confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
Winbourn Pierce, for appellant. Ex parte Gray, 11 Texas Ct. Rep., 734.
Howard Martin, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
BROOKS, Judge.
was prosecuted in the county court, under an indictment charging him with pursuing the occupation of selling malt liquors without having procured a license. The occupation being taxed $50 by the State and $25 by the county. The record shows that if the occupation was followed at all, it was in a precinct where local option prevailed. There is no statute authorizing a license for the occupation of selling malt liquors in a local option precinct. The license is for selling intoxicating liquors in a local option district, and the .State tax thereon is not less than $200. It follows, therefore, that appellant was not prosecuted for any offense known to the law. The judgment is accordingly reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.