Wilson v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted under the Act of 1909 (P. C. Art. 589), for unlawfully engaging in' and pursuing the occupation or business of selling intoxicating liquors in prohibition territory and his penalty fixed at the lowest term,—two years in the penitentiary.

Some nineteen separate and distinct sales of intoxicating liquors were alleged to have been made by appellant to respective persons named between the dates of March 10th to May 18, 1911.

Prohibition had been properly adopted and was in force in Hunt County, where this offense was alleged to have been committed, before…