Brignon v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Ellis. Tried below before Hon. J. C. Smith, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for a violation of local option; penalty, a fine of $25, and twenty days’ imprisonment in the county jail. ■ The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and prosecutes this appeal. It is only necessary to- discuss one question raised in this case, to-wit, the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction. The State proved by the alleged purchaser that about the 20th of February, 1895, he went to the store of Adolphus Brignon early in the morning and found Charley Brignon1, the defendant, there, and told him he wanted some whiskey. ■ He said he did not have any. “I then asked him to get it for me. He said he was going to Dallas that night, and could get it for…
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