Graham v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. Jesse M. Brown. Appeal from a conviction of selling liquor without license; penalty, a fine of $500 and one day confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the ease. On question of insufficiency of the evidence: State v. Winterman, 179 S. W. Bep., 704.
1Opinion of the Court
HABPEB, Judge.
Appellant was charged with unlawfully selling to one L. E. Chandoin intoxicating spirituous liquors, in quantities less than a gallon, without first having obtained a license to sell such liquors.
It was admitted on the trial that prohibition was not in force in the territory where the liquor was sold, if sold, and also admitted that appellant had no license to sell such liquors.
The facts would show that appellant was a porter at the Siebold hotel, and the State’s witnesses testify that they went to the Siebold hotel and asked appellant if he would get them some whisky, and he…
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- Addison v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1902
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