Dixon v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for possessing intoxicating liquor for purposes of sale, punishment one year in the penitentiary.

Appellant ran a barbecue stand on a public highway. Search of this place disclosed the presence of 158 bottles of beer, some of which was submitted to a chemist for analysis, who testified fully to the alcoholic content of same. In an old chicken-house about fifty yards from appellant’s place nine gallons of whiskey was also discovered. Chickens were roosting in this house, and appellant admitted that they might be his. A small privy, or toilet, was located close to the…