# Allen v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · June 27, 1945 · 148 Tex. Crim. 606

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3931816

## Case

- **Full name:** Jessie Allen v. the State
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** June 27, 1945
- **Citations:** 148 Tex. Crim. 606; 190 S.W.2d 569; 1945 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 830
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Graves
- **Judges:** Hawkins, Beauchamp, Graves
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

GRAVES, Judge,
dissenting.
In my judgment the information, as well as the complaint herein, fails to allege that appellant, while intoxicated, drove an automobile on a public highway in Dallas County, Texas. Unquestionably they do allege that appellant was intoxicated in such county, and that he drove an automobile while intoxicated. Such intoxication might have and doubtless did continue. for some period of time, and he might have been miles away from the point where he first became intoxicated and then began his prohibited driving. We are called upon to presume that while intoxicated he drove this automobile
in Dallas County.
It is not alleged that he “then and there” drove, nor that McKinney Ave. Viaduct was situated in Dallas County. In order to sustain this complaint and information we must infer that he drove in the same county in which he drank to intoxication. This I am unwilling to do.
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I therefore dissent from the majority opinion of my Brethren.

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