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STANDRIDGE V. STATE. Opinion delivered July 13, 1925. 1. CRIMINAL LAW—SUFFIC1ENCY OF CONFESSION.—Proof of confession of the accused, accompanied with proof of commission of the offense by some one, warrants a conviction. 2. INTOXICATING LIQUORS—UNLAWFUL SALE—EvIDENCE.—Evidence held to sustain a conviction of the unlawful sale of whiskey. Appeal from Pope Circuit Court; J. T. Bullock, Judge; affirmed. Joe D. Shepherd, for appellant. H. W. Applegate, Attorney General, and John L. Carter, Assistant, for appellee. • McCuiLocH, C. J. This is an appeal from a judg-'ment of conviction of the offense of selling intoxicating liquor, and the sole contention here is that the evidence 'is inSufficient to sustain the verdict. • The officer who arrested appellant testified that he gave a man named Freeman a marked $5.00 bill with 'instructions to purchase whiskey; that he followed Freeman in a car, about ten minutes behind; that when he got near the top of a certain hill, Freeman returned up the road with a half-gallon of whiskey, and that when he went to the top of the hill he (witness) saw appellant and a boy down the road a short distance in the direction from which Freeman had come, and that be thereupon arrested appellant and found the marked bill in appellant's possession. The witness testified that he .identified the bill by the marks he had placed on it, as well asl by its serial number, a memorandum of
which he had kept when he turned the bill over to Freeman. Freeman did not testify in the case. , Two witnesses testified to a voluntary confession made by," appellant. Proof of confession of the accused, accompanied by proof of the commission of the offense by ' some person, is legally sufficient to sustain a conviction. ,Melton v. State, 43 Ark. 367. The circumstances proved .in this case were sufficient to warrant the inference that whiskey -was sold on the occasion mentioned by the witnesses, and, even if that were not sufficient to fully connect appellant with. the sale, his own confession supplies the omission , and completes the case against him as to the legal sufficiency of the evidence. Affirmed.
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