McKinley v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This is a conviction for violating the local option law. The State’s case was made by the testimony of a negro witness testifying positively to the fact that he bought a bottle of whisky from appellant; that he paid appellant the money and appellant told him to go into the back room of the house where they were and he would find it sitting on the table; he went as directed and got the whisky. Appellant testified in his own behalf positively that no such transaction occurred. Over appellant’s objection he was required to answer that for quite a while he was a whisky…