Pinckard v. State

Citations

• 13 Tex. Ct. App. 373
• 1883 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 17

Syllabus

<p>1. Local Option Law—Penalty.—Charge of the Court instructing the jury that the minimum fine for the violation of the Local Option Law is fifty dollars, is error; the minimum being fixed by statute at twenty-five dollars.</p> <p>2. Same.—Pending this appeal, the Local Option Law was repealed in Polk county by popular vote. Held, that such repeal is fatal to the judgment of conviction; and as it vitiates it in any event, the cause is dismissed.</p>