Schenk v. State

LATTIMOEE, Judge.

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

With a search warrant, Mr. Ikard went to the home of appellant. Nothing was found in his residence, but in a hen-house forty-eight half-gallon jars of corn whiskey were found, and some distance from the residence a still in operation was discovered, near which were nine other half-gallon jars of corn whiskey. Appellant did not testify but apparently relied on the affirmative defense that he did not put the whiskey in the hen-house, and did not know it was there. He…