Marks v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. H. J. Smith. 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
BROOKS, Judge.
Conviction for violating the local option law. Bill of exceptions number 4 shows that the State placed Jim Simpson on the stand, "and asked witness what he did with the whisky after witness Hooks asked him about it. And witness was permitted to answer, over objection of defendant: ‘Mr. Hooks says I know you hid it, and you get it; you are not into anything; but he says, if you go up and swear a lie, you will be into it, and they will send you to the penitentiary. He told me to go and get it, and I went and got it, and he says, you come and go to town, and he brought me to the…
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