Parish v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

This conviction is for violating the local option law, the penalty assessed being a fine of $75 and fifty days confinement in the county jail.

The only question that requires consideration is the admission, by the court, over appellant’s objection, of evidence to the effect that appellant received during the month previous to the transaction in question, nine packages of whisky by express. Was this testimony admissible ? It was not a part of the res geste of the transaction in question. It did not serve to show system in making the sales, nor did it serve to illustrate the…