Cortinas v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of San Patricio County of the offense of selling intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

The indictment charges that appellant sold liquor on or about November 1, 1921. The proof adduced by the State consists in the testimony of only one witness, who swore that about November 1, 1921, he bought from the appellant a bottle of tequila, paying therefor the sum of $5. He testified that tequila was an intoxicating liquor. In his motion for new trial appellant contends…