Oxford v. State

HEKDEBSOF, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, his punishment fixed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail; hence this appeal. The case was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury, and the sole question is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. The evidence shows that Jim Oxford was the agent of Bennett, a liquor dealer of Fort Worth; that he lived in Erath County, a local option county, and ordered whisky for parties from Bennett at Fort Worth, on which he got a commission of 15 per cent., where the parties…