Mecaskey v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor is the offense; penalty assessed at confinement in the. penitentiary for eighteen months.

The alleged purchaser was L. A. Goetz. He testified that he purchased from the appellant a pint of whisky for which he paid him $3. The whisky was produced upon the trial and identified by Goetz as that purchased from the appellant. Goetz was very vigorously cross-examined, and among other things it was shown that he had previously falsely represented himself to be a federal officer.

The appellant testified in his own behalf and denied the…