Starkey v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is transporting intoxicating liquor; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Officers searched an automobile appellant was driving on a highway, and found therein a quantity of whiskey. Two men were in the car with appellant. The officers did not learn their names and they were not produced at the trial. Appellant testified that he did not know the whiskey was in the car, his explanation being that the parties riding with him had placed the packages of whiskey in the back of the car without his knowledge of the contents of said packages. He…