Mathis v. State

WALKER, Justice.

This suit was brought by the State to forfeit a quantity of liquor seized by agents of the Texas Liquor Control Board. When the seizure was made the liquor was in a structure called the T. S. Mathis Package Store, and the appellant T. S. Mathis then held a permit to operate a package store at this place. The appellant Evelyn Reeves was present at the time of seizure and immediately prior thereto had sold a bottle of liquor to one of the representatives of the Board and still earlier that day had sold another bottle of liquor to this man. She was in possession of (or had the…