Ennis v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Appellant, on appeal from a like conviction in the County Court of Walker County, was convicted for the illegal possession of prohibited liquors.

The State’s evidence tended to show that police officers saw defendant and two other men standing near a large pine tree behind a fence that ran along the side of a country road. Defendant’s automobile was parked on the side of the road and a red panel truck was parked across the road. As the police car approached defendant’s companions ran into the woods but they later returned.

Deputy Sheriff Newt Wilson testified that as they drove up…