Case Name: SCOTT v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1936-12-16
Citations: 99 S.W.2d 920
Docket Number: No. 18662
Parties: SCOTT v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 99
Pages: 920–920

Head Matter:
SCOTT v. STATE.
No. 18662.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Dec. 16, 1936.
T. R. Mears, of Gatesville, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is the unlawful sale of whis-ky in a dry area; penalty assessed at a fine of $300 and confinement in the county jail for thirty days.
The first count of the information upon which the prosecution is founded avers that appellant sold one-half pint of whisky in Coryell county, "the sale of such liquor in said county, a dry area, having been theretofore and was then prohibited in said county by the laws of the state."
The mere averment in the information that the alleged offense took place in a "dry area" does not comply with the requisites of the law in cases such as that under consideration. See Whitmire v. State. (Tex.Cr.App.) 94 S.W.(2d) 742, and authorities collated.
In the recent case of Kelly v. State, 98 S.W.(2d) 998 (not yet reported [in State report]), this court set out the requisites, for an information charging the sale of intoxicating liquor in a dry territory. See, also, Grady v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 97 S.W.(2d) 474.
For the reason stated, the judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.