White v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment being assessed at one year in the penitentiary.

Operating under a search warrant officers searched appellant’s residence and outhouses. The officers testified that about the time they entered the house someone (presumably appellant’s wife) had thrown some whisky in the fireplace and it was burning. Nothing else was found in the residence. Under a shed about twenty-five feet from the residence *339they found buried a five-gallon keg containing about four gallons of whisky. Chicken feed had been…