True but misleading. The point of these old cases (none are more recent than 1959) is that, under Texas law at the time, they did not use the term driver's license. That meant that an accusation of "operating a vehicle without a driver's license" was technically incorrect.
From the Hassell decision, 194 S.W.2d 400:
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"(a) No person, except those hereinafter expressly exempted, shall drive any motor vehicle upon a highway in this State unless such person has a valid license as an operator, a commercial operator, or a chauffeur under the provisions of this Act.
"(b) Any person holding a valid chauffeur's or commercial operator's license hereunder need not procure an operator's license.
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Texas used the term "operator's license" instead of driver's license. They also had two other classes....commercial operator and chauffeur. Clearly, then, an operator's license is equivalent to what other states call a non-commercial driver's license.