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KNOTT v. STATE

No. 05-81-01073-CR.

648 S.W.2d 20 (1983)

Richard KNOTT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

February 28, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Green, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Karen Chilton Beverly, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Before CARVER, SPARLING and ALLEN, JJ.

CARVER, Justice.

Richard Knott was convicted under a Dallas ordinance making it an offense to blink one's own car lights to warn motorists traveling in the opposite direction of a police radar trap set up to catch speed limit violators. We reverse because the State has legislated comprehensively on the same subject as the City's ordinance; consequently the City's ordinance on the subject was preempted and will not support Knott's conviction.

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