Jones v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for selling intoxicating liquor; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

The State witness testified positively to the purchase of a quart of whisky from appellant sometime before Christmas in 1926. It seems that said prosecuting witness was not brought before the grand jury until 1928, and there being nothing about the transaction in question to fix particularly the date of the sale, it is easily perceivable that he might have varied from the exact date, and yet remembered clearly the fact of the sale. We think the evidence sufficient to support the conviction.

The…