Tapley v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for possessing intoxicating liquor ;for purposes of sale; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

Appellant pleaded guilty, but asked for a suspended sentence. According to his own testimony he was twenty-four years of age at the time he was tried in May 1929, but would become twenty-five on the 21st of December 1929. He said he was born on December 21, 1904. He was asked by the State on cross-examination, while a witness in his own behalf, if it was not true that he had broken jail on three different occasions, and admitted that he had. It was also developed in…