Merriwether v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Hill County for violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

There is only one question of any merit or moment raised on the appeal, and that relates to a matter occurring on cross-examination of appellant. He denied the sale of liquors as charged. On cross-examination he was asked by the county attorney the following question: “Is it a fact that sometime before this transaction you were arrested here in Hillsboro charged with selling whisky in violation…