Witherspoon v. State

Appellant, a 'colored barber of Mal-vern, Arkansas, was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor, and sentenced to a year in the penitentiary.

1. He first insists that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict and judgment against him. He admits procuring the whiskey for the witness, Tommie Kelly, a white youth about 21 years of age, but says that he did so only as a matter of accommodation to the boy, not as a sale to him, and that he did not receive anything therefrom, or have any interest therein whatsoever.

Kelly testified that lie went to appellant’s barber shop in December,…