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47 Tex. Crim. 326

83 S.W 378

Brown v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 23, 1904

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1904-11-23

Tried below before Hon. C. E. Gustavus. Appeal from a conviction of violating the local option law; penalty, $25 and twenty days in county jail. The State proved the sale of a bottle of whisky by defendant and that the liquor was intoxicating. There was no proof that the Iron Tonic which he sold was intoxicating.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 1925

2 state decisions

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Decided 1904-11-23

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BROOKS, Judge.

¶1 Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, his punishment being assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

¶2 Appellant insists that the court erred in overruling his application for continuance. The testimony complained of is cumulative, and it being the second application, we do not think there was any error in the ruling of the court.

¶3 Bill number 2 complains of the court’s refusal to compel the State to elect upon which transaction it would seek a conviction: the sale o f *327 the tonic or the whisky. There was no error in this, since the evidence does not show that the Iron Tonic sold in the morning was at all intoxicating. The prosecutor merely testified that he bought a bottle of Iron Tonic in the morning, and 50 cents’ worth of whisky in the evening.

¶4 Appellant also insists that he cannot be convicted because he is a minor. The proof shows that appellant was 16 years of age. There is no law absolving appellant from prosecution, he having arrived at the years of discretion. The evidence is amply sufficient to support the verdict, and the judgment is affirmed.

¶5 Affirmed.

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