Stewart v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for violating the local option law.

McMurtry, the Sheriff of Briscoe County, testified to having purchased a bottle of whisky from appellant in Potter County in the city of Amarillo. This was strenuously denied by appellant, who testified that he did not sell any whisky to McMurtry, but gave him a bottle and that when McMurtry offered to pay him he declined to accept the money. McMurtry testifies that he went to appellant to buy the whisky and induced him to sell the whisky to him as a means of aiding the sheriff of Potter County in detecting…