Case Name: Calvin Coleman v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1914-04-08
Citations: 74 Tex. Crim. 36
Docket Number: No. 3085
Parties: Calvin Coleman v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 74
Pages: 36–37

Head Matter:
Calvin Coleman v. The State.
No. 3085.
Decided April 8, 1914.
Rehearing denied May 6, 1914,
Local Option—Sale—Sufficiency o£ the Evidence.
Where, upon trial of a violation of the local option law, the facts brought the case within the principles laid down by this court to constitute a sale and a violation of the local option law, the conviction was sustained. Following Ashley v. State, 46 Texas Crim. Rep., 471, and other cases.
Appeal from the County Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. Geo. F. Ingraham.
Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
King & Seale, for appellant.
On question that transaction was not a sale: Phillips v. State, 40 S. W. Rep., 271; Sedgwick v. State, 85 S. W. Rep., 813; Treue v. State, 44 S. W. Rep., 829; Newbury v. State, 44 S. W. Rep., 843; James v. State, 78 S. W. Rep., 951; Joseph v. State, 86 S. W. Rep., 326.
C. K. Lane, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
PBBNDEBGAST, Presiding Judge.
—Misdemeanor prohibition has .been in effect in Nacogdoches County since May, 1906. In November, 1913, Edgar Moore, with the knowledge and consent of appellant, ordered a case of whisky from a whisky dealer in Louisiana to be sent by express to Nacogdoches. The liquor dealer so shipped the whisky. When the whisky arrived in Nacogdoches, Moore was informed thereof. He and two others then made up the money, $12.75, for the whisky and paid it to the liquor dealer's collecting agent in Nacogdoches. Appellant, at his instance, then went to the express agent to procure the liquor. The express agent refused to deliver it to him unless and until he would make an affidavit that it was his ivhisky and that it was not intended for any illegal purpose. Moore and others then furnished him 25c for swearing to the affidavit. He went before a notary, made affidavit to the effect as above stated, paid the notary the 25c for swearing him thereto, took the affidavit, went to the express company, delivered the affidavit to the agent, signed for the whisky in the books of the express company and received the whisky from the agent. He thereupon delivered it to Jim Johnson for Moore and the others and it was so delivered to them.
[Behearing denied May 6, 1914.—Beporter.]
The case was tried before the court without a jury. The court adjudged him guilty and assessed the lowest penalty. In our opinion the facts of this case bring it within the principles laid down and held by this court to constitute a sale in violation of the prohibition law under the eases of Ashley v. State, 46 Texas Crim. Rep., 471, 80 S. W. Rep., 1015; Treadaway v. State, 42 Texas Crim. Rep., 466, 62 S. W. Rep., 574; Dunn v. State, 48 Texas Crim. Rep., 107, 86 S. W. Rep., 326; Parks v. State, 96 S. W. Rep., 328; McElroy v. State, 49 Texas Crim. Rep., 604, 95 S. W. Rep., 539; Bills v. State, 64 S. W. Rep., 1047; Stokes v. State, 49 Texas Crim. Rep., 99, 90 S. W. Rep., 179; Walker v. State, 52 Texas Crim. Rep., 293, 106 S. W. Rep., 376; Cantwell v. State, 47 Texas Crim. Rep., 522, 85 S. W. Rep., 18; Hillard v. State, 48 Texas Crim. Rep., 314, 87 S. W. Rep., 821; Sliger v. State, 48 Texas Crim. Rep., 341, 88 S. W. Rep., 243; Jackson v. State, 49 Texas Crim. Rep., 248, 91 S. W. Rep., 574, and other cases. The judgment is therefore affirmed.
Affirmed.