Gulley v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Ellis county of a second and subsequent violation of the prohibitory liquor law of the state (Comp. St.- 1921, § 6982 et seq.), and his punishment fixed by the jury at a fine of $50 and imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of three years.

The evidence of the state was that the defendant had been convicted in the county court of Ellis county of the crime of unlawful possession of a still and had served a term of 30 days in the county jail and paid a fine of $50, and that thereafter, and on…