McAlister v. State

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and 20 days’ imprisonment in the county jail.

[1] The only bill of exceptions in the record complains that the court erred in permitting the state’s witness Turner to testify that prior to the day of the alleged sale he had purchased whisky from appellant. The general rule is, as contended by appellant, that when the state has proven By its witness a sale to him on the day alleged in the indictment, it cannot prove that additional sales had also Been made to him on dates prior to that time.…