Ellis v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant appeals from a conviction for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor in prohibition territory with the lowest penalty—one year confinement in the penitentiary. The evidence is amply sufficient to sustain the verdict.

By bill appellant complains that in examining the jurors on their voir dire, the court refused to permit him to ask them this question: “Should it develop in the progress of this case that the State’s witness, Charles Koethe, is in the employment of the Sheriff’s department, would you give the same weight and credence to the testimony of said witness…