Coons v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Appellant lived on a thirty acre farm. Immediately south of his house was a garage. South of the garage and within a few feet of it, was an enclosure of land which was a part of appellant’s farm. Operating under a purported search warrant, officers searched the enclosure referred to and found therein, buried in the ground, about eight gallons of whiskey. While they were digging up the whiskey, appellant came into the field and told the officers…