Walker v. State

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating' liquor. The indictment charged “that Prank Walker in said county and state on or about the - day of July A. D. 1936 did wilfully and unlawfully sell certain intoxicating liquor, to wit, whiskey, to Bernard Saucier and Benny Sones, against the peace,” etc. The proof showed a sale to Saucier, and that, while Sones was present, the state of the evidence is such that there is but little more reason to say that Sones was a joint purchaser than that he was a joint seller or an agent of the seller. Although it was unnecessary to charge to…