Shaw v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law under the following state of case: The alleged purchaser, Gee, testified that on the 25th of December, 1908, he bought something from Alex Shaw at Sunset in Montague County and paid him $1.25 for it. This was in a bottle. He says he met defendant on the street and asked him if he had any whisky. Appellant replied he did. Witness gave appellant $1.25, he went away and came back in a little while and gave witness a quart of something. It did not taste like whisky or brandy and he could not say that it made him…