Waltrip v. State

Conviction is for possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment being assessed at one hundred dollars fine and sixty days confinement in the county jail.

It was charged against appellant in the first count of the complaint and information that in Taylor County, Texas, he unlawfully possessed for the purpose of sale whisky containing in excess of one-half of one per centum of alcohol by volume.

It was further alleged in language which we think sufficient that an election had been held in said county in 1911, which prohibited the sale of intoxicating liquor in Taylor…