Efird v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

The first bill of exceptions complains that" the court erred in permitting the State to prove by George Blankenship that Lee Blankenship told witness that he had bought whisky of appellant on a certain time in the town of Princeton. Appellant objected because hearsay, defendant was not present, and it was made seventy yards from defendant’s place of business. We think the first two grounds of objection, in our opinion, are well…