Lyles v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is selling intoxicating liquor; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for one and one-half years.

Appellant was convicted under a count in the indictment charging that he sold intoxicating liquor to Heston Whitt and Bob Robertson. Whitt and Robertson testified that they bought a half gallon of whiskey from appellant, paying him therefor five dollars. They said they went with appellant in an automobile to a place about a mile from town and that while there the transaction relative to the whiskey was had.

Appellant denied that he had sold the state’s…