Ferguson v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose-of sale, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

Operating under a search warrant, officers discovered at the private dwelling occupied by appellant and his family six half-gallon fruit jars of whiskey. Several jars of whiskey were discovered on appellant’s premises in a chicken house, which was thirty or forty steps from the back door of the dwelling. An automobile driven by one Kelsey, in which appellant was riding, was also searched near appellant’s dwelling, and several jars of whiskey…