HILL v. STATE

No. 28165.

290 S.W.2d 677 (1956)

Cornelius HILL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Divine, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Eugene Brady and Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the sale of whiskey in a wet area without having procured a permit from the Texas Liquor Control Board, with prior offenses of like character alleged to enhance the punishment; the punishment, one year in jail and a fine of $1,000.

An employee of the Liquor Control Board testified that he went to a certain address in the City of Houston after mid-night on the day charged in the information and there purchased from...

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