Dozier v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case appellant was indicted for pursuing the occupation of selling intoxicating liquors in Red River County, a county where local option had been adopted. Upon a trial he was adjudged guilty, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The evidence in this case, from the State’s view, shows that defendant on several occasions was going about over the country with whisky in a sack in pint bottles, selling it at eighty cents a pint. He is shown to have made sales to about ten different persons. One witness testified that defendant agreed to…