Court of Appeals of Texas October 18, 1882, No. 1348 (La Norris v. State)

Willson, J.

Article 110 of the Penal Code provides as follows: “ Any person who shall pursue or follow any occupation, calling, or profession, or do any act taxed by law, without first obtaining a license therefor, shall be fined in any sum not less than the amount of the taxes so due, and not more than double that sum.”

The act of March 11,1881 (Acts Seventeenth Legislature, chap. 34, p.