Legal Opinion

Waits v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 2, 1914No. 3342PublishedCited by 4 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

PBEHDEBGAST, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant was convicted for unlawfully engaging in the business or occupation of selling intoxicating liquors in prohibition territory.

The sole question in the case is whether or not the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict. We have carefully read the evidence. It shows that prohibition had been, some time before the offense is alleged to have been committed, and was at the time, in force in Cherokee County. The uncontradicted testimony shows that appellant, within the course of a few months, made three separate and distinct sales of whisky,—two of them…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. State v. ElzaTexas Supreme Court · 1918
  2. Brady v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1945
  3. Brady v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1945
  4. Goss v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918

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