Davis v. State

BAKER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Hunt County for transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment assessed at one year in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the officers arrested the appellant, his son, J. T. Davis, and a daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Wilkes, while on the road in an automobile, and found between the seats of the car 24 half-gallon jars of corn whiskey. The appellant defended on the ground that he had no interest whatever in the whiskey, and that he got into the car at Cooper, without knowing at the time that there was any whiskey therein, for…