Epple v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

— Offense, the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor; punishment, three years in the penitentiary.

An officer searched appellant’s car without a search warrant. In it he- found inside of the upholstering of the seat eight pints of corn whiskey. The claim is made that both a search warrant and prob able cause being absent, the officer’s testimony was inadmissible, and the conviction. without warrant of law. These various contentions are sufficiently answered by the following quotation from the searching officer’s testimony:

“I said, ‘I want to look through it,’ and he…