Case ID: tex-crim_89/html/0302-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      LATTIMORE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Chandler v. The State.
    No. 6262.
    Decided May 11, 1921.
    Intoxicating Liquors—Sale—Accomplice—Uncorroborated Testimony.
    Where, upon trial of the sale of intoxicating liquors in violation of the law, the conviction rested upon the uncorroborated testimony of the purchaser, the same cannot he sustained.
    Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before the Honorable Joel R. Bond.
    Appeal from a conviction of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors ; penalty, imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year.
    
      Wynne & Wynne, Ross Huff master, and Miller & Miller, for appellant.
    
      R. H. Hamilton, Assistant Attorney General, for the
    Cited Robert v. State, 228 S. W. Rep., 220.
   LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Kaufman County of selling intoxicating liquor, such sale not being for medicinal, mechanical, scientific or sacramental purposes, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

An examination of the record discloses that the conviction of appellant rested upon the uncorroborated testimony of the purchasers. It is admitted by the Assistant Attorney General that there is no testimony in the record sufficient to support the conviction, and that the judgment is erroneous. Being of opinion that this position is correct, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.