Burns v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Shelby County of transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.

Pour witnesses testified, all for the State. Giles said that on the 22nd of April, 1923, he found appellant on the Santa Pe railroad going from Timpson toward Grigsby, a mile and a quarter from the Knight hotel and from the postoffiee in the town of Timpson, and found on him when arrested, three bottles of corn whiskey. Witness said that he took the liquor home and brought it to court and delivered it to Mr. McLeroy’s…