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Originally Posted by squirrel
Does anyone have a way to check and see if these are true ??
"We have held that there is no such license as a driver's license known to our law." (Claude D. Campbell v. State, 160 Tex. Crim. 627; 274 S.W. 2d 401.)
"There being no such license as a "driver's" license known to the law, it follows that the information, in charging the driving of a motor vehicle upon a highway without such a license, charges no offense." ( W. Lee Hassell v. The State, 149 Tex. Crim. 333; 194 S.W. 2d 400)
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Yes they're real ... but they don't say that people can drive in Texas without having some official permission for that purpose. It's just that Texas has its own nomenclature for what everyone else - even Texans - call a driver's license. The Hassell case (in 1946) made a point of this, that a traffic ticket for driving without a driver's license used the wrong jargon and therefore did not sufficient apprise the motorist of the charge against him. There were three kinds of motoring permits under the Texas law - the general motor vehicle operator's permit, the commercial motor vehicle operator's permit, and then chauffeur's permit. They are the things that other states call drivers' licenses, but the Texas court was being anal about the official terminology.