Lawhon v. State

CourtTexas Court of Appeals
Writing for the CourtHurt
CitationLawhon v. State, 9 S.W. 355, 26 Tex. App. 101 (Tex. App. 1888)
Decision Date10 October 1888
PartiesLAWHON <I>v.</I> STATE.

Appeal from Cherokee county court; M. J. WHITMAN, Judge.

John Lawhon was indicted for a violation of the local option law. There was a conviction, and defendant appealed.

Asst. Atty. Gen. Davidson, for the State.

HURT, J.

This conviction is for a violation of the local option law. The indictment was filed January 13, 1888, and it alleged that the offense was committed on December 28, 1887. The local option law was adopted by the voters of the precinct at an election held in March, 1886. The court below, trying the case without a jury, assessed the punishment under the provisions of the act of the legislature, approved March 30, 1887, amending the local option law, and making the punishment more onerous. This was error. In Robinson's Case, ante, 61, (Austin term, 1888,) this court held that, when the people of a certain locality have adopted the local option law, at an election held before the amendment was enacted, such amendment does not affect the...

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14 cases
  • Ex Parte Myer
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
    • October 23, 1918
    ...21 Ann. Cas. 656; Ex parte Elliott, 44 Tex. Cr. R. 577, 72 S. W. 837; Cross v. State, 49 Tex. Cr. R. 437, 94 S. W. 1015; Lawhon v. State, 26 Tex. App. 101, 9 S. W. 355; Robinson v. State, 26 Tex. App. 82, 9 S. W. 61; Dawson v. State, 25 Tex. App. 670, 8 S. W. 820; Ex parte Fields, 39 Tex. C......
  • Slack v. State
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
    • March 1, 1911
    ...for making a single sale of intoxicating liquors cannot be changed. See Robinson v. State, 26 Tex. App. 82, 9 S. W. 61; Lawhon v. State, 26 Tex. App. 101, 9 S. W. 355; Ex parte Baines, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 63, 45 S. W. 24; and Lewis v. State, 58 Tex. Cr. R. 351, 127 S. W. The doctrine announced i......
  • Ex Parte Fulton
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
    • May 14, 1919
    ...See Ex parte Myer, 207 S. W. 100; Ex parte Hollingsworth, 203 S. W. 1102; Dawson v. State, 25 Tex. App. 670, 8 S. W. 820; Lawhon v. State, 26 Tex. App. 101, 9 S. W. 355; Robinson v. State, 26 Tex. App. 82, 9 S. W. 61; State v. Texas Brewing Co., 106 Tex. 121, 157 S. W. The question of the c......
  • Lewis v. State
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
    • March 2, 1910
    ...and to the very question here raised. The next case involving the correctness of the Dawson Case, supra, was that of Lawhon v. State, 26 Tex. App. 101, 9 S. W. 355. In that case it appeared that the local option law in Cherokee county, the violation of which was claimed, was adopted in Marc......
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