Rankin v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law. The State’s witness Ward testified that he was in Sunset on the 25th of December, 1908, and was in George Powell’s light plant and Jack Rankin and Bob Davis were both present while he was there; that appellant gave him a bottle of whisky; that he 'gave somebody $1.25 for it but did not remember whether he gave it to appellant or his brother Jack Rankin, but he thought he gave it to appellant; that he had been drinking that day and was drunk at the time. Dan Rankin testified that it is untrue that he ever met…