Case Name: HARRISON v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-05-07
Citations: 262 S.W. 488
Docket Number: No. 8135
Parties: HARRISON v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 262
Pages: 488–488

Head Matter:
HARRISON v. STATE.
(No. 8135.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 7, 1924.
Rehearing Denied June 11, 1924.)
Intoxicating liquors <§=236(11) — Positive as- ' sertion of state’s witness that he bought . from defendant held to sustain conviction.
The positive assertion of state’s witness that he purchased intoxicating liquor from defendant held to sustain conviction for selling.
' Appeal from District Court, San Jacinto County; J. L. Manry, Judge.
Henry Harrison was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
. M. E. Gates, of Huntsville, and J. M. Hans-boro, of Cold Springs, for appellant.
Tom Garrard, State's Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of San Jacinto county of selling intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
The record is before us without bills of exception. The state witness affirmed positively the purchase of intoxicating liquor from appellant. Appellant denied this. The jury solved the issue against appellant. The veracity of the state witness was not attacked, and was for the jury. The charge of the court and indictment appearing to he regular, an affirmance will be ordered.