Morris v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Having suspicion that the law was violated in the residence of the appellant, officers made an investigation on the outside and observed a liquid which they regarded as whisky mash running into a ditch. They went to a magistrate and obtained a search warrant, upon the authority of which they searched the appellant’s house and found therein a quantity of mash and whisky, and also a still.

On the trial objection was made to the testimony of the…