Barham v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of vio-

lating the local option law. The State introduced in evidence a certificate of W. S. Banister, county judge of Delta County, entered upon the minutes of the Commissioners Court on March 8, 1899, reciting that on the testimony of C. C. Dunagan, who was county judge of Delta County during the years 1897 and 1898, and J. H. Boyd, publisher of the People’s Cause, a newspaper published in said county, and from a personal examination of the papers on file in said J. H. Boyd’s office, the order of the Commissioners Court of said Delta County,…