Phillips v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

The indictment follows the law embraced in Section 1 of Chap. 61, Acts of the Thirty-seventh Legislature, 2nd Called Session. See Vernon’s Tex. Crim. Stat., Vol. 2, Sup. 1922 (Penal Code) Art. 5884. In Section 2 of that Act, another offense is defined, namely: the unlawful sale of spirituous liquor containing an excess of one per cent of alcohol by volume. See Art. 5884-a. The prosecution being founded under Article 5884, was not faulty in…