Patterson v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor, penalty one and a half years in the penitentiary.

Three boys were around a pool of water when appellant rode up on a horse. In replying to his inquiry they told him they were hunting jack-rabbits. He rode back up the branch about fifty yards and testified he found a jar of whiskey. The three boys came up and drank some of it. One of them testified he rode off with it. Appellant testified that he went a few feet over to the edge of the water and secretly dropped it in the water on the opposite side of the boys so they…