Ellis v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for violating the local option law, the punishment being assessed at a fine of $50 and forty days imprisonment in the county jail.

There was a motion made to quash the indictment. None of the grounds urged are sound. A brief statement of the facts disclose that Whitworth, the alleged purchaser, testified that he lived about eight miles northeast from the town of Gilmer; that he saw appellant on the 15th of April, 1909, went to his house and was informed that he was on the creek fishing; that he went to the creek and told appellant that he wanted…