Swalm v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before Hon. G. P. Webb. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSOlSr, Presiding Judge.
Conviction for violating the local option law. Graham testified that on two occasions, during the summer or fall of 1904, he bought from appellant some wine or cider. That on each occasion he bought a quart; that it did not make him wholly drunk, but partially so, and in his opinion the wine or cider was intoxicating; that when he bought the two quarts appellant told him it was cider. He drank a quart in going from appellant’s residence to his own, which was a mile and a half. He uses this language: “I was pretty well organized as the result of drinking this quart…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Belt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1904
3Cited by1 opinion
- Campbell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909