Court Opinion

ID: 3962757
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:22:53.992491+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:47.426112
License: Public Domain

This is an appeal from a conviction for violating the local option law, the penalty assessed being a fine of $25 and twenty days in jail.
The State's witness, Henry Searcy, testified that he bought from appellant in January, 1909, a pint of whisky, for which he paid sixty-five cents, and that he bought the same at the house of the appellant in Pittsburg, Camp County, Texas; that no one was present at the time but the appellant and the witness. The appellant took the stand and testified that he did let the witness have the whisky, but some time before that the witness came to him and asked him to order some whisky for him and stated that he did not have any money and for the appellant to advance the money for him and order him a pint of whisky. The appellant says that he did this and that when the witness came on the day in question he let him have the whisky and the witness paid him. The proof shows local option was in effect in Camp County.
The only ground in the motion for new trial is that the judgment is not supported by the evidence. We are not authorized to disturb the verdict of the jury on a controverted issue. The jury believed the testimony of the witness for the State and did not believe appellant's theory of the matter. We would not feel justified in disturbing the verdict of the jury on the ground of the insufficiency of the testimony and finding no error in the record the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.