Choate v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Conviction of violating the local option law, penalty assessed being a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

Prosecutor testified that he bought the whisky from appellant. Appellant testified that he had intended to order a half-gallon of. whisky worth $4 per gallon; that prosecutor came to him and stated he wanted a half-gallon or two quarts; and in that connection said he only had 75 cents of the money, and requested appellant to advance $1.25, the balance of the purchase money, and order the whisky and he would pay the money back to appellant when the…