Harbin v. State

On Rehearing.

The appellant was convicted of an offense denounced by section 2 of an act approved January 25, 1919; the complaint upon which the conviction is predicated charging that appellant "had in his possession prohibited liquors contrary to law." Acts 1919, p. 6, § 2.

The state offered evidence tending to show that appellant and another were apprehended by the sheriff in a woods, where the sheriff and his deputies had been watching a jug of liquor that they had discovered; when apprehended appellant had the jug in his arms in the act of drawing the cork; that he had on his person some…