Chance v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The conviction is for unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors, in a part of the State where such liquors were prohibited under the local option law.

The State’s evidence showed that the «purchaser asked appellant if he could obtain some whisky for him; that appellant consented to do so, stating that a pint would cost $3, and that sometime thereafter he returned and delivered a pint of whisky, the purchaser paying him $3 therefor.

The appellant’s theory and testimony was to the effect that the purchaser asked him to get some whisky for him, and that on appellant’s promise to try to…