Case Name: Charlie Blank v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1937-06-02
Citations: 132 Tex. Crim. 535
Docket Number: No. 18962
Parties: Charlie Blank v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 132
Pages: 535–536

Head Matter:
Charlie Blank v. The State.
No. 18962.
Delivered June 2, 1937.
The opinion states the case.
W. J. Cunningham and W. E. Martin, both of Abilene, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
— The conviction is for the unlawful sale of malt liquor containing alcohol in excess of one-half of one per cent of volume; penalty assessed at a fine of $100.00 and confinement in the county jail for a period of sixty days.
The information is insufficient to charge an offense under the authority of Whitmire v. State, 94 S. W. (2d) 742, holding that the information must allege that an election had been held in the • particular county which resulted in the prohibition of the act charged. The principle announced has been followed in many recent cases, among them being Kelly v. State, 98 S. W. (2d) 998; Privitt v. State, 98 S. W. (2d) 204; Hardin v. State, 101 S. W. (2d) 264; Pond v. State, 101 S. W. (2d) 247.
For the reason stated, the judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Reversed and prosecution ordered dismissed.