Blackwell v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction for selling liquor. The testimony is conflicting, and it is earnestly insisted that the evidence preponderates against the verdict. Plaintiff in error proves a good character, and she and her husband and her witness, Yates, tell a plausible and consistent story. However, the Arresting officer is absolutely positive that he witnessed, with an unobstructed view, the delivery by plaintiff in error of the whisky to one Burke and his payment of the money to her, and that he immediately arrested both parties, found four bottles of whisky on Burke, and that Burke…