Walker v. State

Freeman Walker was tried under an indictment based on Penal Code, § 428, as amended by the act of 1897 (Acts 1897, p. 39), which declares, “If any person shall sell, contract to sell, take orders for, or solicit, personally or by agent, the sale .of spirituous, malt, or intoxicating liquors,-in any county or town or municipal corporation or militia district or other place .where the sale of such liquors is prohibited by law, high license or otherwise, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” On the trial it appeared, from the evidence submitted in behalf of the State, that the accused was the…