Columbo v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at one year confinement in the State penitentiary.

In this case the indictment alleges the election to have been held subsequent to the enactment of the law making it a felony to sell intoxicating liquors in prohibited territory. There can be no question as to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment, but a number of questions are raised by bills of exception and in the motion for a new trial.

1. In the first ground of the motion for new trial,…