Alexander v. State

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Kaufman county of the offense of pursuing the occupation of a retail liquor dealer ⅛ said county, in which the sale of liquor .had been forbidden by law, and his punishment fixed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The second, sixth, eleventh, twelfth, and twenty-fifth grounds here urged for reversal complain that the state was allowed to prove by a number of witnesses that the general reputation of appellant as a bootlegger and seller of intoxicating liquors was bad in the community where he lived, and where this offense was alleged…