Treadaway v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $35 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

It was admitted that local option was in force in Kemp, Kaufman County, where the sale is alleged to have occurred. The prosecuting witness, Will Jeffrey, testified, in substance: That on December 3, 1899, he was in Kemp. While there he learned the jug of whisky was in the express office, with one dollar charges thereon. That Airhart and himself gave a quarter each, and Jim Grubbs 50 cents, to appellant—the whisky having been…