Orr v. State

CATES, Judge.

Orr appeals from a judgment rendered June 19, 1957, conforming to a verdict of guilt of transporting five gallons or more of “wildcat” whiskey, Code 1940, T. 29, § 187. Upon conviction, he was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude.

The appeal is also, as permitted by statute (Code 1940, T. 7, § 764), from a judgment rendered August 17, 1957, overruling a motion for new trial.

The view of the evidence we must take, in the light of the verdict for the State, is substantially as follows:

'On January 8, 1957, Mr. Carlos Nelson, for five and one-half years an enforcement officer of…