Freedman v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of knowingly selling liquor to a minor without written consent of the parent, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25, and hence this appeal is prosecuted. The sale was alleged to have been made to one Claude Chandler. • Chandler testified that he bought beer twice at the defendant’s saloon—once on the 6th and the other on the 7th of March, 1896. Chandler swears that he was 16 years old when he got the beer. Defendant and his porter, a negro (from whom Chandler says he obtained the beer), testified to facts which, if true, show that the beer was…