Heath v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for transporting intoxicating liquor; punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The charge of the court was excepted to for- its failure to submit the law of circumstantial evidence as applicable to the facts in this case. We think the learned trial judge in error is not so charging the jury.

According to the testimony of the sheriff, he was watching the premises of one Gurley and had sent other officers after a search warrant, a most commendable course, and one which if followed by other officers would lessen the labors of this court in passing on the legality vel…