Simms v. State

HAWKIN.S, Judge.

— Conviction is for the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor with punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The indictment contained one count charging that appellant manufactured intoxicating liquor “on or about” the 28th day of June, A. D. 1922.

The principal witnesses against appellant were W. C. Chappel and his son, Horace Chappel. Appellant was a white man and the Chappels were negroes. W. C. Chappel owned some land upon which ivas a spring; the land being in the cedar brakes near the Brazos River. W. C. Chappel testified that appellant came to his home…