Ex parte Sublett

Citations

• 23 Tex. Ct. App. 309
• 4 S.W. 894
• 1887 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 72

Syllabus

<p>l; Local Option Law—Election.—The local option law of this State requires that the commissioners court of the county to be affected by the election under the said law shall order the said election at the first session of the said court after the filing of the petition for said election, and this statute is mandatory. An election held under an order issued at any other than the first session of the said court ajfter the filing of the petition is absolutely void.</p> <p>2. Same.—Under the local option law, as it existed in November, 1876, an election under its provisions could be ordered at a special session of the commissioners court, if such was the first session after the filing of the petition.</p>