Davis v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was assessed a jail sentence of one year, together with a fine of One Hundred Dollars, by a jury in the County Court of Johnson County, for the sale of liquor in a dry area.

Two witnesses testified that they went to the home of appellant at about four o’clock in the afternoon of April 11, 1945, and purchased from him a half pint of whisky for two dollars and seventy-five cents. The two witnesses drank the whisky and testified positively that it was intoxicating liquor. There was some contradicting evidence as to some of the statements made by these two witnesses…