Case Name: Mrs. M. F. Grissom v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-10-24
Citations: 127 Tex. Crim. 176
Docket Number: No. 16964
Parties: Mrs. M. F. Grissom v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 127
Pages: 176–177

Head Matter:
Mrs. M. F. Grissom v. The State.
No. 16964.
Delivered October 24, 1934.
Reported in 75 S. W. (2d) 443.
The opinion states the case.
Lockhart & Brown, of Lubbock, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction for selling beer; punishment, a fine of $25.00.
From her trial in the county court of Lubbock County, wherein she was found guilty of selling beer in said county and given the punishment above stated, appellant has appealed. The State proved without question that at the time of the sale Lubbock County was what is commonly called dry territory, that is that in said county there had been held a local option election to determine whether or not the sale of beer containing not more than 3.2 per cent alcohol by weight should be sold, and that at said election a majority of the voters of said county voted against the sale of such beer in said county. In such state of case the county court of Lubbock County was without jurisdiction, the offense, if any, by appellant being a felony. Letcher v. State, 73 S. W. (2d) 100. The trial court in this case being without jurisdiction, the case should have been dismissed upon the showing'made.
The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Reversed, and prosecution ordered dismissed.