Frazier v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Waller. Tried below before the Hon. J. D. Harvey. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
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Appeal from the County Court of Waller. Tried below before the Hon. J. D. Harvey. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The officers who made the arrest testified that defendant was under arrest but was still in bed, and while one was standing either in her room or in the door, she got up and was talking; that another officer tried to make her hush and said that any statement that she made might be used as evidence against her; that this warning, by one of the officers, was made about…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
This is a local option case, the sale alleging to have been made to Walter Lewis. He testified that he met Hack Rheman, a negro, who works at the jail for Sheriff Perry. He approached Lewis and asked him if he could secure him some whisky; being informed in the affirmative, he gave Lewis 35 cents. Lewis states that he went to Willis Frazier’s house, two or three hundred yards distant, and knocked on the door. Appellant inquired who it was; being informed it was Lewis, she asked him what he wanted. He told her he wanted his share of the whisky; she replied the whisky…
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