Jennings v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant appeals from a conviction obtained in the County Court of Grayson County on a charge of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors in violation of the local option law.. Appellant became a witness on the trial in his own behalf, and in the course of.his direct examination testified that he had never at any time sold any intoxicating liquor to R. O. Parish or anyone else; whereupon, on cross-examination he was asked by counsel for the State the following question: “Have you not been before convicted of violating the local -option law in this very court?” To which question,…