Case Name: LAGUNA v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-04-30
Citations: 261 S.W. 1032
Docket Number: No. 8411
Parties: LAGUNA v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 261
Pages: 1032–1032

Head Matter:
LAGUNA v. STATE.
(No. 8411.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 30, 1924.
Rehearing Denied May 28, 1924.)
Intoxicating liquors <©=>236(II) — Evidence held to sustain conviction.
In prosecution for selling intoxicating liquor, evidence held to sustain conviction.
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Appeaí from Criminal District Court, Travis County; James R. Hamilton, Judge.
Guadalupe Laguna was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
■John E. Shelton, of Austin, 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 criminal district court of Travis county of selling intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
The only question is the sufficiency of the evidence. Prosecuting witness and a friend went to appellant on the night in question and jvanted to get some whisky. Appellant' told them to come back in about 15 minutes. They did so and found appellant standing on a street corner with a little boy. The boy handed the whisky to prosecutor and his friend, and they handed appellant $6 in money. As prosecutor and his friend were leaving the spot, they observed officers following them in a car. Fearful of being charged with transporting liquor, they threw the whisky out and broke the bottles. The officers went to the spot and examined the liquid and smelled of it and testified that it was whisky. Appellant was asked for whisky. There seems no question as to the fact that the article asked for and delivered was whisky.
The judgment will be affirmed.