Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Sebastian Circuit Court, Fort Smith District; Paul Little, Judge; 1. The testimony for the State, if literally true, is not sufficient to sustain a verdict of guilty. Williams was only an agent for Henson. 124 Ark. 477. It was error to give instruction No. 1 for the State. 1. The evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction. 125 Ark. 232; 105 Id. 462; 45 Id. 361; Acts 1915, p. 98.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
Appellant is charged in the indictment with the offense of selling whiskey on July 4, 1916, in the city of Fort Smith. A witness, one Henson, testified that he met appellant on one of the streets in Fort Smith and asked him to get some liquor for him, to which, request appellant acceded; that the two got into an automobile, driven by appellant, and drove down Garrison avenue, and thence up another street, either Eighth or Ninth street, the witness being uncertain as to which it was, and stopped in front of a house; that appellant got out of the automobile, and, after receiving the sum of…
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