Case Name: W. H. Goen v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-03-11
Citations: 99 Tex. Crim. 329
Docket Number: No. 9220
Parties: W. H. Goen v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 99
Pages: 329–330

Head Matter:
W. H. Goen v. The State.
No. 9220.
Delivered March 11, 1925.
Sale of Intoxicating Liquor — Evidence Supports Verdict.
No bills of exception appear in tbe record. Tbe evidence as set out in tbe statement of' facts amply supports tbe conviction, and tbe judgment is affirmed.
Appeal from the District Court of Jefferson County. Tried below before the Hon. Geo. C. 0 ’Brien, Judge.
Appeal from a conviction for the sale of intoxicating liquor; penalty, one year in the penitentiary.
No brief filed by appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Attorney, and Grover C. Morris, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge
The offense is unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor. Punishment, one year in the penitentiary.
No bills of exception appear in the record. The evidence of R. G. Poster, the alleged purchaser, is definite and positive that he purchased whiskey from appellant on a houseboat belonging to the latter. Officers testified that they searched the houseboat within three or four minutes after the alleged sale and found some whiskey in the houseboat, and also some concealed under a raft of logs near it. Appellant denied the transaction with.Poster, and denied knowledge of the presence of the whiskey in the houseboat or under the logs. The issues of fact were settled by the jury in favor of the State.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.