Court Opinion

ID: 3923201
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:49:53.725204+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:55:09.758270
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The offense is possession of whisky in a dry area for the purpose of sale; the punishment, a fine of $100.00 and confinement in jail for 30 days.
Appellant entered a plea of guilty. The State introduced testimony showing that on the 21st of April, 1937, an inspector of the Texas Liquor Control Board bought a pint of whisky from appellant. Moreover, the proof was sufficient to show that Cherokee County was a dry area.
The complaint and information failed to allege in terms that the commissioners' court had canvassed the returns of the election and declared the result. However, we find an averment therein as follows: "And thereupon the commissioners' court of said county aforesaid, did pass an order declaring the result of said election, and prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in said Cherokee County, Texas." We quote from Branch's Ann. P. C., Sec. 1224, as follows:
"It is not necessary to allege in terms that the commissioners' court had declared the result of the election; an allegation that the commissioners' court had made an order prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors is broad enough to embrace that proposition."
In support of the text many authorities are cited, among them being Holloway v. State, 110 S.W. 745.
We are constrained to hold that it was sufficiently averred that the sale of intoxicating liquor had been prohibited.
The judgment is affirmed. *Page 407 
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.
                    ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.