Sadler v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Violating Prohibition Law. Appeal from Cleburne Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John Peli-iam. Anderson Sadler was convicted of selling whisky, and he appeals.
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Violating Prohibition Law. Appeal from Cleburne Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John Peli-iam. Anderson Sadler was convicted of selling whisky, and he appeals. The witness for the state testified to having purchased whisky from the defendant and to have paid him 35 cents therefor some time in the month of June, 1905. The state was permitted to ask the defendant’s witness if it was not true that during the year 1905, and in June of that year, or along about that time, the witness had not shipped whisky in large quantities to the defendant from witness’s saloon in Atlanta, Ga., and if during…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
— Defendant in the trial court ivas convicted of selling whisky in the first half of the month *111of June, 1905. The state was permitted to draiv from a witness for the defendant the fact that about the time of the offense sworn to he had shipped whisky in considerable quantity to the defendant from Atlanta., Ga. In onr. judgment this evidence was competent and relevant to the issue, as corroborative of what had been sworn by the state’s witnesses, and was in no degree affected by any records the express company may have kept of such shipments. Such records would have been incompetent.
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