Cox v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in tbe Second Division of tbe Greene County Circuit Court for selling whiskey, and, as punishment therefor, was adjudged to serve a term of one year in the State Penitentiary. Prom the judgment of conviction an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.

The first insistence for a reversal of the judgment is that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction. An intimation is thrown out that, on account of the drunken condition of the only State witness, William Starr, to the alleged sale of whiskey, his testimony was unreliable and…