Allen v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was tried under an indictment charging him with keeping and being concerned in keeping a house where spirituous, vinous and malt liquors were sold and kept for sale without first having obtained a license.

The testimony of several citizens and policemen of Dallas introduced by the State, would authorize a jury to find that in a place.known as Allen’s Garden liquors were sold and kept for sale, the State’s contention being that Mr. Allen was the owner and proprietor of the place, and it was run under the name of the Scientific, Political and Literary Association, as a…