Offield v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

The indictment charges, in substance, that on or about the 15th day of March, A. D. 1933, appellant, in Winkler County, Texas, possessed for the purpose of sale intoxicating liquor.

No statement of facts is brought forward, the sole attack being on the sufficiency of the indictment, which question was raised in the motion in arrest of judgment. In the charge the .court instructed the jury that whisky is a spirituous liquor /capable of producing…