Williams v. State

BEOOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

Appellant requested the court to charge the jury as follows: “Ho mistake of fact excuses one committing an offense; but if a person laboring under a mistake as to a particular fact shall do an act which would otherwise be criminal he is guilty of no offense. The mistake as to fact which will excuse under the preceding article must be such that the person so acting under a mistake would have been excusable had his conjecture as to…