Blaine v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of unlawfully selling liquor in a dry area, and fined the sum of $750.00.

It appears from the statement of facts that the State relied for a conviction upon the testimony of one R. P. Boyd, an employee of the State Liquor Control Board, who testified that on October 14, 1938, he went into the Red Cross Pharmacy about 9 o’clock in the evening, in the City of Dallas, and asked the clerk therein for some whisky. The clerk directed him to appellant, who went into the rear of this drug store to a cabinet, and, producing a key, unlocked such cabinet…