Winfrey v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for selling intoxicating liquor, punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

The first count of the indictment under which appellant was convicted charged that he sold intoxicating liquor to J. D. Jones on December 25, 1932.

Jones testified that he bought a pint of whisky from appellant about one-thirty in the afternoon on Christmas day, 1932, and paid him one dollar for it; that appellant had the whisky in his pocket. It was not developed from the witness when he was first on the stand how the whisky was paid for. Appellant denied making the sale, and claimed to…