Smith v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a fine of $100.00 upon his conviction by a jury in the county court upon the charge of possessing unstamped whisky. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and testified in his own behalf to an alibi, denying that he was the person from whom the officers contended that they bought the liquor in question.

The officers testified as to the purchase of a quart jar which they produced in court and gave as their opinion that it contained moonshine whisky on which no tax stamp was attached.

The record is before us with one bill of exception which complains of the…