Smith v. State

Smith was convicted of selling liquor. The evidence is brief. Prank Jones gave Jim Wilkes $1.25 and told him to go to Smith and get some whisky. Wilkes went to Smith’s house, was gone some 30 minutes, and returned with a half pint of whisky and 95 cents in change. Smith came back with Wilkes, or rather followed shortly after him, and Jones asked him why he did not let him have a quart, and he said that a half pint was all he had. It seems from Wilkes’s testimony that when he went to Smith’s house and told him that he wanted some whisky, Smith said that he had *231some, but would not sell it.…