Holland v. State

The application for rehearing should be granted, and the judgment of conviction reversed, because of the erroneous rulings of the court (to which rulings exceptions .were taken) in allowing in evidence testimony to the effect that within nearly 300 feet of this defendant’s home the searching officers found four pints of rum or whisky in the water; and, at another place, but at approximately the same distance from appellant’s home, one quart of whisky was found, by the side of a log, in the water. There was no evidence even tending to show any connection with this whisky by the defendant. The…