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Rains v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Feb 11, 1925
268 S.W. 1118 (Tex. Crim. App. 1925)

Opinion

No. 8138.

Delivered February 11, 1925. No motion for rehearing filed.

Violating Tick Law — Evidence Insufficient to Sustain Conviction.

The averment in the information that the appellant was the owner and caretaker of the cattle, is not sustained by the evidence, and the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Appeal from the County Court of Cherokee County. Tried below before the Hon. J. J. Bolton, Judge.

Appeal from a conviction for violating the tick law; penalty, a fine of twenty-five dollars.

M. L. Lefler, for appellant.

Tom Garrard, State's Attorney, and Grover C. Morris, Assistant State's Attorney, for the State.


The conviction is for violating the tick law; punishment fixed at a fine of twenty-five dollars.

The only testimony which has been observed by us is to the effect that the cattle in question were the property of the wife of the appellant and that she and her son were their caretakers.

The averment in the information that the appellant was the owner and caretaker of the cattle is not sustained by the evidence.

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.


Summaries of

Rains v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Feb 11, 1925
268 S.W. 1118 (Tex. Crim. App. 1925)
Case details for

Rains v. State

Case Details

Full title:G. M. RAINS v. THE STATE

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Feb 11, 1925

Citations

268 S.W. 1118 (Tex. Crim. App. 1925)
268 S.W. 1118