Williams v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for violation of the liquor law with a penalty of nine months in jail and a fine of $750.

The evidence shows that appellant was apprehended in the city of Mineral Wells, at four o’clock in the morning, while driving on the streets, with three cases of liquor containing seventy-two pints. Appellant plead guilty before a jury on the 10th day of August, 1948. The state, thereupon, introduced evidence showing the circumstances of the arrest and the quantity of liquor in his possession, as stated above. The jury, on the same day, returned its verdict…