Brister v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Mills County of selling intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at two and one-half years in the penitentiary.

Prom the record we learn that appellant is a stock farmer, owning about 700 acres of land which he farms and on which he raises sheep and cattle; that he lives about ten miles from Goldthwaite and has lived there about fifteen years and has a family.

The State relies upon the testimony of one Rex Lewis who testified that on the 24th of March he saw appellant in the town of Lometa accompanied by a man whom we…