Scarbrough v. State

Offense, the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor; penalty, one year.

Officers testified that appellant came up on the Cotton Belt Railroad track at night. They followed him, and he ran. They heard bottles rattling, and observed him throwing some bottles. It was too dark for them to tell what, if anything, was in the bottles. They could just see the “flash of the bottles.” They followed appellant up town, arrested him, and detected.the odor of whisky on his clothes, took him to the sheriff, and after a few minutes went back over the route traversed by appellant and themselves, and…