Hackett v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

The first ground of the rehearing is that there should be some particularity of description of the liquor possessed by appellant. In Tucker v. State, 94 Texas Crim. Rep., 505, we held an indictment sufficient which charged merely that the accused possessed liquor capable of producing intoxication. The case has been followed *271many times since. We are still of opinion this is a sufficient description of the liquor.

This court has often held that whisky is liquor capable of producing intoxication, and that it is not error to so tell the jury in the charge…