Case Name: J. T. Henderson v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1906-11-14
Citations: 50 Tex. Crim. 413
Docket Number: No. 3416
Parties: J. T. Henderson v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 50
Pages: 413–417

Head Matter:
J. T. Henderson v. The State.
No. 3416.
Decided November 14, 1906.
local Option—Accommodation loan—Sale—Charge of Court.
Upon a trial for a violation of the local option law, where the evidence showed that the prosecutor was ill and approached defendant to let him have some whisky, which the latter refused; that prosecutor then asked defendant to order him some whisky and gave him the money for that purpose; that prosecutor again asked appellant to loan him a pint of whisky until his whisky arrived and that defendant complied with said request; that both defendant and prosecutor stated that it was not a sale but a loan. Held, that this was no defense to the alleged sale and the court was not required to charge on that subject. Following Tombeaugh v. State, 50 Texas Grim. Rep., 286. Davidson, Presiding Judge, dissenting.
Appeal from the District Court of Cass. Tried below before the Hon. P. A. Turner.
Appeal from a conviction for violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
No brief for appellant.
J. E. Tantis, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, his punishment fixed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail. There are no bills of exception in this record, nor special charges requested by appellant. The same question is involved in this case as in Tombeaugh v. State, just decided, and in accordance with that decision we hold that the defense set up by appellant of an .accommodation loan, is no defense to the alleged sale, and that the court was not required" to charge on that subject. The judgment is affirmed.