Sterling v. State

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, penalty one year in the penitentiary.

No objection was made to the court’s charge submitting the case to the jury, and the record contains no bills of exception complaining of the reception or exclusion of evidence, nor to any other procedure during the trial.

Officers were on watch at a particular place near the river on a mission not connected with appellant. While there one of the officers observed appellant and another party in a small boat transferring whiskey from large containers into pint and half-pint bottles,…