Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 170
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 18, 1931

JURY HEARS EVIDENCE IN
LIQUOR POSSESSION CASE

Defendant Testifies He Did Not
Know Whiskey Was on His Premises.

Taking of testimony was in progress in Falls county district court today in the case of F. M. Court, charged with Illegal possession of intoxicating liquor.

Testifying n his own behalf, the defendant stated he was present at the time officers seized the alleged whiskey at this place of business on Wood street in Marlin, but that he did not know how it came to be there
except from what he "had been told."  The court sustained the state's objection to hearsay evidence.

Members of the jury in the case are J. C. Hargrove, R. H. Jones, L. J. Bruggman, J. A. Reed, J. L. Belk, J. H. Gameson, L. P. Doree, W. F. Lott, Eddie Sebesta, C. C. Holland, Rudolph Newman, T.A. Powers.

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