Mason v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted in the district court of Oaddo county of a second and subsequent violation of the prohibitory liquor laws, and his punishment fixed by the jury at a fine of $50 and imprisonment in the state penitentiary for one year and one day, and appeals.

It is contended by the defendant that the trial court erred in permitting the introduction of incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial evidence, in this, that the court permitted the state to introduce evidence that the general reputation of the defendant’s residence as being a place…