Case ID: sw_160/html/0379-01.html
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Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PICKLE v. STATE.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct 22, 1913.)
    Intoxicating Liquors (§ 236) — Offenses— Evidence— Sufficiency.
    In a prosecution for selling intoxicants in prohibition territory, evidence held sufficient to support the conviction.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Intoxicating Liquors, Cent. Dig. §§ 300-322; Dec. Dig. § 236.]
    Appeal from Jasper County Court; Garland Smith, Judge.
    J. W. Pickle was convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    J. J. Lee, of Jasper, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
    
      
      For other eases see same topic and section NUMBER in Dec. Dig. & Am. Dig. Key-No. Series & Rep’r Indexes
    
   PRENDERGAST, P. J.

Under the misdemeanor statute prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in prohibition territory, this conviction was had, and the lowest punishment prescribed by law assessed.

There is but one question in the ease. Appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict. The proper orders of the commissioners’ court were introduced showing that prohibition was in force before the felony statute was enacted, and at the time the alleged sale occurred. Appellant did not testify. The state proved substantially by two witnesses that Single-tary, the party to whom the alleged sale was made, and a companion, were in the town of Jasper on Sunday, June 2, 1912, and wanted some whisky, and that they together went to appellant’s house, where said Singletary called appellant out and told him he wanted some whisky. Appellant said he had none at the house, but he gave him some keys to a market house. Singletary and his ' companion, with the keys, then went to this market house, and Singletary got out and went in and got four or five pints of whisky. He carried the keys back to appellant, and told appellant that he would see him next week, or fix it with him next week. In our opinion this evidence was sufficient to sustain the verdict; the jury and the lower court both so finding and holding.

The judgment will be affirmed.