Armstrong v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

It was shown without controversy that in the appellant’s automobile which he was driving at the time of his arrest, there was a quantity of whiskey in jugs. The jugs were thrown from the car and broken while the sheriff was endeavoring to apprehend the appellant. Appellant, in his testimony, admitted that the jugs contained whiskey and that they had been brought by him from Victoria, in Victoria County, a distance of many miles. He…