Thomas v. State

In this case the uncontradicted evidence was that the defendant sold one-half pint of whiskey to an alcoholic, as alleged in the information. There were three witnesses: a deputy sheriff, a minister of the Gospel who was pastor of the Church where the alcoholic had been recently converted, and a lay member. The minister and layman were visiting in the room of the backsliding member trying to help him in throwing off the liquor habit, and trying to comfort him, when the defendant came up to make the sale. They hid in the bath room with the door partly open. They did not connive with the…