Flatt v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— Possessing intoxicating liquor is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Observing a bottle of whisky in the appellant’s car' and having knowledge of other circumstances quite adequate to constitute “probable cause” as that term is defined in the decision of this court in Chapin v. State, 107 Tex. Crim. Rep. 447, and other cases, a search of the appellant’s car revealed the presence of something over 100 bottles of whisky. The appellant claimed that it was possessed for medicinal purposes.

The arrest was made on the 5th day of…