Legal Opinion
Yett v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided May 30, 1928No. 11532PublishedCited by 3 opinions
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Judge.
Offense the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, penalty one year in the penitentiary.
The only serious question presented in the record is appellant’s exception to the following argument of the Prosecuting Attorney made to the jury:
“There is lots of drinking going on up around Liberty Hill. If you want to stop it, give this nigger the limit. Five years is not enough debt for him to pay for the harm he has done ever since he has been up there. Right now there is no telling how much blood of young men he has poisoned, and I want you gentlemen to send the word by these people from…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Torrans v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1924
3Cited by3 opinions
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