Brown v. State

Conviction in district court of Shelby county of selling intoxicating liquor; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant has three bills of exception in the record which are discussed in his brief in inverse order. Bill of exceptions No. 3 complains of the state asking on cross-examination of defense witness Irish if it was not a fact that a complaint had been filed against him charging him with possessing intoxicating liquor. The bill of exceptions shows that he answered that such complaint had been filed. Said bill sets out the objections at length; one of them being upon the…