Walker v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of selling intoxicating liquor in prohibited territory, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.

A witness named Ed Johnson testified he purchased a pint of whisky from appellant on the night of January 31, 1911. Appellant was running a restaurant in' Texarkana, and had taken out internal revenue license authorizing him to engage in business at Texarkana as a retail liquor from and after January 1, 1911. It was admitted that prohibition went into effect in Bowie County on April 15,…