West v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

Appellant and a negro were arrested about ten o’clock at night, and at the same time, the officer making the arrest took possession of a suitcase containing a quantit yof whisky. At the time of the arrest, they were near a store which the officer called a “commissary” in a village in Bastrop County, and the suit-case was on the gallery in front ■of the store. Sometime before the arrest, the officer had passed the place…