Coffee v. State

The defendant was convicted of tippling and possession of intoxicating liquor, with his punishment fixed at a fine of $500 and a workhouse sentence of six months.

The prosecutrix, Mrs. Herbert Nichols, testified that between 10 and 10:30 on a night in September, 1947, the defendant sold her husband, in her presence, a bottle containing four drinks of whisky for seventy-five cents; that both she and her husband were employed; that for more than a year, since their marriage, her husband had spent all his money buying whisky from the defendant; and that she had several times complained of this to…