Case Name: George Williams v. The State
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1887-02-05
Citations: 23 Tex. Ct. App. 70
Docket Number: No. 2235
Parties: George Williams v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 23
Pages: 70–70

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.