Jones v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for the transportation of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

The court, in the second paragraph of its charge, instructed the jury that the statute made it unlawful to transport intoxicating liquor, but declared that it was no offense to transport it for medicinal, mechanical, or scientific purposes, following which this language was used:

“In this connection you are instructed that it devolves upon the State to prove from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the person accused…