Brookman v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $75 and forty-five days imprisonment in the county jail, hence this appeal.

Appellant criticises the following portion of the court’s charge: “If you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the order for the gallon of whisky given by M. D. Light, and taken by defendant, as shown by the evidence, was a scheme and subterfuge and but a plan and devise to cover up a sale of whisky by defendant to said Light; or that said Light gave the order as shown by the evidence…