Venn v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of TTpshur. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. McClelland. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 an’d twenty days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case. On question of alibi: Arismen-dis v. State, 60 S. W. Bep., 47; Harper v. State, 98 S. W. Bep., 839; Tijerina v. State, 74 S. W. Bep., 913; Colbert v. State, 52 Texas Crim.
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Appeal from the County Court of TTpshur. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. McClelland. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 an’d twenty days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case. On question of alibi: Arismen-dis v. State, 60 S. W. Bep., 47; Harper v. State, 98 S. W. Bep., 839; Tijerina v. State, 74 S. W. Bep., 913; Colbert v. State, 52 Texas Crim. Bep., 486, 107 S. W. Bep., 1115. Upon question of corroboration of witness: McKnight v. State, 95 S- W. Bep., 1056; Kirksey v. State, 58 Texas Crim. Bep., 188, 125 S. W.…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, bis punishment being assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days imprisonment in tbe county jail.
He introduced testimony showing clearly an alibi. The State’s evidence was made by a witness who stated that he had bought whisky from appellant at Union Grove about 8:30 or 9 o’clock in the morning. Appellant proved by several witnesses that at that time he was at another place several miles distant, some of whom went with him from his home to the point designated, and by other witnesses who were on the ground at that…
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