Campbell v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Eastland County by a general verdict of guilty under an indictment containing two counts, one charging transporting, and the other charging possessing intoxicating liquor in violation of what is known as the Dean Law, Acts Second, called Session, Thirty-sixth Legislature, page 228, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The facts showed that appellant was the proprietor of a hotel in Eastland County and that on the occasion in question two deputy sheriffs went to his room in said hotel in the early morning…