Case ID: sw_234/html/0390-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ROBERT v. STATE.
    (No. 6394.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 19, 1921.
    Rehearing Denied Nov. 9, 1921.)
    Intoxicating liquors <&wkey;236(11) — Evidence held sufficient to support conviction of unlawful sale of liquor.
    In prosecution for unlawful sale of liquor, evidence held sufficient to support conviction.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Harris Counts'; C. W. Robinson, Judge.
    P. Robert was convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Harry C. Gerlach, of Houston, for appellant.
    R. G. Storey,. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

The indictment charged the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor to Leonard Lewis.

Lewis testified to the purchase of a gallon of whisky in bottles of a certain description, which bottles containing the liquor were placed in a certain drug store. Some of them were afterwards found there by an officer, and identified at the trial by circumr stances as those placed there by Lewis.

There was found at appellant’s premises and in his possession a quantity of mash and equipment for making whisky: also a quantity of whisky. Testimony was introduced tending to show the identity in character of the whisky obtained by Lewis from the appellant, and that found on his premises. Appellant’s confession, admitting the sale to Lewis of the whisky described in the indictment, was also introduced in evidence.

No questions of practice are presented requiring comment.

The evidence of the accomplices Lewis and Houston is direct, and, in our opinion, the corroboration is sufficient. The evidence is sufficient to show that the offense charged was committed by appellant.

The judgment is affirmed. 
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