Nichols v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Manufacturing intoxicating liquor is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of four years.

The State’s witness McElroy testified that he observed the appellant and his son, Denny Nichols, .making whisky; that a few days later he saw appellant and his son take some whisky across the river in a boat and saw the appellant return with a quantity of money and say that he had made a “good haul.” Appellant asserts that in the receipt of evidence of the latter transaction, the rule against proving collateral offenses was transgressed.…