Guse v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Appellant had kept for some time a cold-drink business in which he openly sold a liquid called cider at twenty-five cents per drink and one dollar per pint. The article had been purchased by the appellant, according to his testimony, under an assurance or guarantee that it was non-intoxicating. The prosecution is founded upon the sale of a bottle of the liquid to Arispe, a Mexican. An analysis of the fluid revealed that it contained thirteen per…