Mayo v. State

Conviction is for the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor. Punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

The appellant had several bottles of whisky in his automobile. He testified that it was 'not for the purpose of sale, hut that he was going to take it home for medicinal purposes. He proffered testimony also that he was suffering from rheumatism and had been for 12 years; that whisky gave him relief when he was suffering with that malady; that under the advice of physicians it had been his custom to use whisky as a medicine to counteract the…