Lamm v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

J. W. Massie is named as the purchaser. The sheriff had information or suspicion that one Nowell, proprietor of an establishment known as the Texas Hotel, situated at the town of Dalton City, in Palo Pinto County, was engaged in violation of the law prohibiting the liquor traffic. Massie was employed by the sheriff on a stipend of ten dollars per day and was furnished expense money, including twenty dollars with which to buy whisky. He…