Zweifel v. State

Decided May 10, 1884

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1884-05-10

Tried below before the Hon. L. H. Brewer, County Judge. The opinion sets out the charging part of the indictment. A fine of one hundred and twenty-five dollars was the penalty imposed by a verdict of guilty. The errors complained of in the motion for new trial, were that the court gave a verbal charge, and failed to give a written charge.

Decided 1884-05-10

Hurt, Judge.

¶1This is a conviction for selling liquor on election day.

¶2The indictment alleges that defendant sold liquor on the seventh day of ¡November, 1882, said day .being then and there a day of general election for county and State officers, and that said election was then and there held, etc. There is no allegation that the election was held in the precinct, village, town or city of the defendant, or where the liquor was sold. It is simply charged in the indictment that an election was held in the county. Is the indictment sufficient? Clearly it is not. (Art. 178, Penal Code.)

¶3Because the indictment is defective, the judgment is reversed and the prosecution dismissed.

¶4Reversed and dismissed.

¶5Opinion, delivered May 10, 1884