Turner v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

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

Armed with a warrant of arrest for another party, officers went to appellant’s house searching for said party and were admitted, apparently having only in view an effort to execute said warrant. While in appellant’s house said officers testified that they observed a gallon of whisky sitting on the floor. Having before them this evidence, or apparent evidence, of a violation of the law, the officers made further search and found in the house about fifty gallons of…