Walker v. State

BBOOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $100 and sixty days in jail. This case was tried before the court, without a jury.

Prosecuting witness, Chas. Hartman, testified substantially, as follows: “Defendant, as I understood, was running a cold storage business-in Cisco, during the summer of 1904. I told defendant to order me some beer, and gave him $10.50 to pay for it; told him to get me some cases of beer. There are two dozen pint bottles in a case. I got four or five cases. The beer came to defendant, I suppose, as all I…