Albright v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Gregg. Tried below before the Hon. J. H. McHaney. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $100 and sixty days confinement in the county jail.
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Appeal from the County Court of Gregg. Tried below before the Hon. J. H. McHaney. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $100 and sixty days confinement in the county jail. The rest of the statement of facts not stated in the opinion is as follows: John Albright, the defendant, being sworn testified that he did not sell the State’s witness T. G. Livsey any whisky, that on the morning of September 89, 1913, the State’s witness Livsey came down to the Fair Grounds where I was at work and told me he was going hunting and wanted some whisky and asked…
1Opinion
We copy in full the evidence of the State's witness Livsey as follows: "I live in Rusk County, Texas; know the defendant John Albright; on the morning of September 29, 1913, I went down to the fair grounds in Longview, Gregg County, Texas, saw the defendant, John Albright, and asked him if he had any whisky, he said he did, I told him I wanted some, he said all right and called his son and told him to let me have a bottle of whisky that was in the wagon; his son let me have a bottle of whisky and I paid the defendant two dollars for it. This occurred in Longview, Gregg County, Texas. The…
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