Court Opinion

ID: 9828458
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:23:36.584612+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:48.384829
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Counsel for appellee urge in their motion for rehearing the provision of acts 30th Leg. (1st Ex. Sess.) p. 447, providing that pending a contest of any local option election held within this state the enforcement of such local option law shall not be suspended, and insist that to permit appellant td attack the validity of the Potter county election in this case would be to violate that provision of the statute. This act has been held by our Court of Criminal Appeals to be constitutionally valid (ex parte McGuire, 57 Tex. Cr. R. 38, 123 S. W. 425), but, giving it full force, we fail to see that it affects the question heretofore decided • by us. When the judgment of this court in the Savage v. Umphres Case referred to in the original opinion became final, the contest was no longer pending, and by the very letter of the act the suspension of the law in Potter county was no longer forbidden. So that, after all, it is yet a question of whether or not this court through its majority is correct in the holding that it will take judicial notice of that decree. Neither member of this court sees any reason for changing his views heretofore expressed, and the motion for rehearing is therefore overruled.
SPEER, J., dissenting as on the original hearing.