Venn v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for the sale of intoxicating liquor, punishment is five years in the penitentiary.

The alleged purchaser, Oscar Winn, testified that he went to appellant’s home and bought whiskey from him. The sale was denied by appellant and his witnesses, they claiming that Winn brought whiskey to appellant’s house and offered him a drink of it, which he declined. Winn was intoxicated when arrested by officers and placed in jail. Appellant developed that the story first told by Winn to the officers was that he got the whiskey from a negro.

Appellant requested a charge on…