Starnes v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $100 and sixty days confinement in the county jail.

Bill of exceptions Ho. 2 shows that while the State’s witness, J. C. Cromer, was upon the stand testifying, State’s counsel asked the witness the following question: “Did you get any whisky from the witness, Wash Morris, and if.so state what was done?” Appellant objected because it was relative to a transaction between the witness Cromer and the negro, Wash Morris, and a transaction between them in the absence of the defendant,…