Dennis v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant stands convicted of possessing prohibited alcoholic beverages.

The evidence introduced by the State shows that two deputy sheriffs of Marshall County, J. H. Allison and Hubert Hipp, were riding down a road near appellant’s home.

They saw the appellant emerge from some woods forty or fifty feet from his home, and they “pulled in.”

They asked appellant to come to their car. Instead the appellant bolted for his home, and the officers pursued him.

Just where the officers caught the appellant is in an uncertain state, even under the testimony of Deputy Allison,…