Case Name: Hosie Cotton v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1909-05-19
Citations: 56 Tex. Crim. 553
Docket Number: No. 4118
Parties: Hosie Cotton v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 56
Pages: 553–555

Head Matter:
Hosie Cotton v. The State.
No. 4118.
Decided May 19, 1909.
Rehearing Denied June 23, 1909.
1. —local Option—Statement of Facts—Filing.
Where upon appeal the appellant filed the proper certificate showing that the statement of facts was filed in the time allowed by statute, the statement will be considered.
2. —Same—Evidence—Bills of Exception.
Where upon appeal the record showed that the testimony set out in appellant’s bill of exceptions was admitted, there was no error,
3. —Same—Charge of Court—Election by State.
Where upon trial of a violation of the local option law the evidence showed that the defendant sold the whisky practically at one and the same time, there was no error in the court’s refusal to require the jury to say upon what transaction they found defendant guilty.
4. —Same—Charge of Court—Intent—Practicing Physician—Prescription.
Where upon trial of a violation of the local option law the evidence showed that the defendant sold straight whisky, and a physician subsequently , put medicine in the whisky for the prosecuting witness, there was no error in the court’s refusal to instruct the jury as to defendant’s good faith in selling liquor under a prescription of a practicing physician.
Appeal from the County Court of Bosque. Tried below before the Hon. P. S. Hale.
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.
H. S. Dillard, for appellant.
F. J. McCord, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days imprisonment in the county jail.
The Assistant Attorney-General moves to strike out the statement of facts in this case on the ground that same was not filed in the court below. Upon an examination same discloses no file mark upon the statement of facts. Accordingly the motion to strike out is - sustained. In the absence of statement of facts there is nothing in this record requiring a review.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.