Sheffield v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment being 18 months in the penitentiary.

Officers armed with a search warrant found in appellant’s yard in a hole about twelve feet from the back door of his house three quarts of intoxicating liquor. The containers had been broken. About twenty-five yards from the rear of the house in a basket which had been covered with clothes taken from a clothes line they found an assortment of liquor,, consisting of nine and a half pints of whisky, one and a half pints of Habenero, three pints of Mescal and…