Field v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction in the County Court of Ellis County on an indictment duly preferred for a violation of the local option law, the punishment assessed being $100 fine and sixty days confinement in the county jail.

The facts show, in substance, that in the latter part of April or first of May, 1907, the witness G. P. Zellner bought a quart of whisky from appellant. He states the facts thus: “I had been up to my mail box after the mail, which is just a short distance up the road above Eoger Fields’ house, and as I came back down the road by Eoger Fields’ house he…