Phillips v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Conviction is for selling intoxicating liquor. Punishment, three years in the penitentiary.

The sale upon which the prosecution is based occurred prior to the amendment of the law by the Thirty-seventh Legislature, when the purchaser was an accomplice. The trial however was had after the amendment became effective, under which the purchaser is no longer an accomplice. The only two witnesses testifying for the State were joint purchasers. Appellant contends that the law as it existed when the offense was committed controls, and that in the absence of corroborative testimony the…