Case ID: tex-ct-app_23/html/0070-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 2235.
    George Williams v. The State.
    Opinion delivered February 5, 1887.
    Unlawful Sale op Liquor to a Minor—Evidence.—To support a conviction for the offense of knowingly selling intoxicating liquor to a minor the evidence must show that at the time the liquor was sold the seller knew the purchaser to be a minor.
    Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Gustave Cook.
    The conviction in this case was for knowingly selling intoxicating liquor to a minor, and the penalty imposed was a fine of twenty-five dollars.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      J. B. btubbs, for the appellant.
    
      J. H. Burts, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   White, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for selling intoxicating liquor to a minor. There is not a particle of proof going to show that at the time appellant sold the liquor he know that the party to whom he sold it was a minor. The offense consists in “knowingly” selling liquor to a minor, and it must be alleged and proven that the act was “knowingly” done, that is, that the seller knew he was selling to a minor.- (Hunter v. The State, 18 Texas Ct. App., 445; Penal Code, art. 376).

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.