Riojas v. State

From conviction in the District Court of Jim Wells County for transporting intoxicating liquor, with punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary, this appeal is taken.

Appellant and his brother were in a car and passed a place where some officers were, the attention of the latter being attracted by the apparent contents of the car. A chase was undertaken and extended a mile and a half or two miles before the car was caught. Same was found to contain 131 bottles of tequila shown by the testimony to be intoxicating liquor. The first bill of exceptions was to the refusal of a peremptory…