Helton v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. Punishment is fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The specific charge is that appellant in October 1921, unlawfully manufactured intoxicating liquor, “to-wit, one quart of whisky.” The exceptions were properly negatived, as was required prior to faking effect of the amendment of the Thirty-seventh Legislature.

The country about where appellant lived is timbered, and has many hills, hollows and ditches through it. On the occasion inquired about the officers found in a deep ditch or ravine some three-fourths of a mile…