Case Name: Roger May v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1944-03-01
Citations: 147 Tex. Crim. 204
Docket Number: No. 22779
Parties: Roger May v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 204–206

Head Matter:
Roger May v. The State.
No. 22779.
Delivered March 1, 1944.
Rehearing Denied April 26, 1944.
The opinion states the case.
Eugene F. Mathis, of Lubbock, for appellant.
Ernest S. Goens, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Unlawfully selling whiskey is the offense; the punishment, a fine of $100.00.
Appellant insists that the undisputed facts show that he acted only as the agent of the purchaser of the whiskey, and not as the seller thereof. As to this, we note, that, upon cross-examination of appellant, and upon his being shown the bottle of whiskey which the State's witnesses identified as having been acquired from appellant, he said: "I am pretty sure that is the whiskey I sold Mr. Burney." (The purchaser 'named in the information.) Such an admission on the part of the appellant was sufficient to raise an issue for the jury — to- say nothing of the State's testimony on the subject.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.