Wood v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

Officers saw appellant take from the turtle-back of his car a package and deliver it to another party. Upon examination of appellant’s car sixty-nine and a half gallons of whisky in half-gallon fruit jars were found. Appellant did not testify and offered no evidence whatever. The district attorney in argument said, “It has not been contradicted that he (appellant) had it for sale,” meaning the whisky. This argument was objected to as being a reference to the…