Townsend v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Smith. Tried below before the Honorable J. R. Warren. Appeal from a conviction of selling intoxicating liquors; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. On question of corroboration; Johnson v. State, 208 S. W. Rep., 170. Planson v. State, 11 id., 37. -The latter cited, on question of corroboration: Williams v. State, 199 S. W. Rep.,.296; Nash v. State, 134 id., 708.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Smith County of selling intoxicating liquor in violation of the Dean Law, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
We do not deem it necessary to discuss any question save that of the sufficiency of the evidence. The conviction rested largely .upon the testimony of certain witnesses who purchased the alleged liquor, and, therefore, were accomplices. These parties said they saw appellant on the street and made arrangements with him to get them some whis-ky, and that later he came to an appointed…
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