Hail v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, and his punishment assessed at three years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the appellant was charged in the first count of the indictment with unlawfully possessing for the purpose of sale intoxicating liquor on or about the 25th day of December, 1926. The second count of the indictment follows:

“And the grand jurors do further present that, prior to the commission of the aforesaid offense by the said J. J. Hail, to-wit, on the 3rd day of January, A. D. 1926, in the…