Haney v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This is a conviction for violating the local option law. The State proved by a witness named Paul that appellant sold him some whisky.- Appellant testified that he did not sell him any whisky but sent his brother-in-law, Smith, a bottle of whisky by the witness Paul. Appellant kept a livery and feed stable; his brother-in-law, Smith, kept a hotel, and the reason he sent whisky to his brother-in-law, he states, was that his brother-in-law had been kind to him, threw a good deal of trade to his livery stable and was in a sickly condition and needed the whisky. This was…