Mooney v. State

BERRY, Judge. —

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Nacogdoches County for the offense of unlawfully manufacturing, intoxicating liquor, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of one year.

There was no contradiction to the State’s case to the effect that appellant was manufacturing intoxicating liquor, but it was the appellant’s theory, and.he testified to the effect that he was manufactoring it for medicinal purposes. He testified that he came of a tubercular family and that he was suffering from tuberculosis, and that he had been advised by his…