Melton v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing the appellant to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of one year for the crime of selling liquor. Mrs. Ollie Waters, a witness for the State, testified that, in the spring of 1922, she saw the appellant sell liquor to one Dink McCullough. The sale was in the presence of appellant’s wife and daughter. She stated that it was white mule whiskey. The sale took place at appellant’s meat-house, and appellant got the whiskey out of a jar which he kept in the meat-house. Witness saw McCullough pay the appellant for the whiskey. She thought…