Case ID: tex-crim_73/html/0429-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARPER, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bud Smith v. The State.
    No. 3080.
    Decided April 1, 1914.
    Local Option—Waiver of Jury—Agency.
    Where the defendant submitted his case to the trial judge, waiving a jury, and introduced facts as to agency, hut the court, nevertheless, convicted him, there was no error.
    Appeal from the County Court of Johnson. Tried below before the Hon. J. B. Haynes.
    Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $35 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
    The opinion states the case.
    Ho brief on file for appellant.
    
      C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $35 and twenty days imprisonment in the county jail.

A jury was waived, and the issues submitted to the court. The defendant admits that the prosecuting witness, J. W. Peters, approached him and stated he wanted some whisky. Appellant says he told Peters he had no whisky, but thought he could get him some. That he went and purchased the whisky from one Pettigrew, who is now a fugitive from justice. This explanation, if true, would show that he was merely acting as agent for Peters, but the court did not apparently believe it, and the testimony of Peters supports the judgment.

The judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.