Cooks v. State

Morrow, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of whisky in a container to which no tax stamp showing the payment of the tax due the State of Texas was affixed; penalty assessed at a fine of $200.00 and confinement in the county jail for a period of sixty days.

Joe E. Winfree, Jr., an Inspector for the Texas Liquor Control Board, testified that he knew the appellant; that on the morning of February 4, 1938, he went to the home of the appellant in Beaumont, Texas, and purchased from her a half pint of untaxed whisky for which he paid her the sum of thirty-five cents.…