Drye v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before Hon. J. H. Wood, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for a violation of local option; penalty, a fine of $50, and twenty days imprisonment in the county jail. No statement necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $50, and confinement in the county jail for twenty days; hence this appeal.
He challenged eight of the jurors upon the ground that they had such an established opinion as to his guilt or innocence as would debar them from being fair and impartial. Of the eight jurors, two, to wit, Davis and Everhart, had heard the prosecuting witness, Medford, testify in the ease of State against Hunter, in which he stated that the appellant had sold whisky to him at Van Alstyne in…
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