Legal Opinion

Sweeney v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 24, 1906No. 3289PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before Hon. G. P. Webb. Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

1Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

was convicted of violating the local option law. The only question presented is the sufficiency of the evidence; and this shows that appellant owned a cold storage in which he kept whisky for others, and served to the owners this whisky when called for by them, and for which service he charged and received pay. He sold cigars, soda-pop, and non-intoxicating malt liquors in said cold storage. Johnson was an employee of appellant at the time the sale was made. Appellant was not present in the room where the sale was made, but was in the building. That there had been…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Gerstenkorn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
  2. Freedman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1897

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Ollre v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909

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