Marmer v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. The evidence shows that J. J. Robinson, sheriff of Smith County, hired A. N. Lowery and one Brown, as detectives, to ferret out violations of the local option law in Smith County; and paid said detectives for their services. The sheriff pointed out appellant to Lowery as one of the persons he suspected of violating the law. The detectives were strangers in the city of Tyler, having come from another part of the State. Lowery…