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Westergreen v. the State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, May, 1916
May 3, 1916
185 S.W. 879 (Tex. Crim. App. 1916)

Opinion

No. 4056.

Decided May 3, 1916.

Pure Food Law — Statement of Facts — Practice on Appeal.

Where, upon appeal from a conviction of a violation of the pure food law, the record contained no statement of facts the question of the sufficiency of the evidence can not be considered.

Appeal from the County Court at Law of Harris County. Tried below before the Hon. Clark C. Wren.

Appeal from a violation of the pure food law; penalty, a fine of twenty-five dollars.

The opinion states the case.

No brief on file for appellant.

C.C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, John H. Crooker, District Attorney, and E.T. Branch, for the State. — Cited Branch's Annotated Code, sec. 1596.


The information and complaint charge appellant with having in her possession with intent to sell and with offering and exposing for sale meat, which was an article of food consisting in whole and in part of filthy, decomposed and putrid animal substance. The record is without a statement of facts or charges. The only ground of the motion for new trial is that the judgment is contrary to the law and the evidence in this, that there was no testimony that the meat in question was offered or kept for the purpose of sale, and, therefore, the evidence did not sustain the conviction. We are unable to pass on this question for the reasons stated, that the evidence is not before the court.

The judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Westergreen v. the State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, May, 1916
May 3, 1916
185 S.W. 879 (Tex. Crim. App. 1916)
Case details for

Westergreen v. the State

Case Details

Full title:MRS.E.F. WESTERGREEN v. THE STATE

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, May, 1916

Date published: May 3, 1916

Citations

185 S.W. 879 (Tex. Crim. App. 1916)
185 S.W. 879