Hawthorne v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for transporting intoxicating liquor; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Officer Smith received information that a car with a certain number would be along a certain road on the night in question conveying liquor. He went out upon the road, observed the car with the number in question, followed same, and later observed in it a carton containing fruit jars, which upon closer examination were found to be full of whiskey.

The first bill of exceptions complains of the refusal of the court to compel Mr. Smith while testifying on cross-examination, to disclose the…