Tonnahill v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor with a punishment of one year in the penitentiary. The manufacture of the liquor by appellant was proven by the State and admitted by appellant himself. He sought to defend on the ground that he was manufacturing the liquor to be used for medicinal purposes by his wife. He offered to prove by her that since the birth of her last child about eight years before her general health had been bad, her circulation poor, and that she frequently suffered from weakness and fainting spells and had used whisky under the direction of…