Legal Opinion

Long v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 4, 1931No. 14402PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

Under authority of a search warrant officers searched appellant’s residence and premises. In the house they found no whisky, but a strong odor of it was detected in the kitchen and dining room. In the smokehouse some twenty feet from the residence they found a five gallon keg with a little more than two gallons of whisky in it. They also found in the smokehouse fourteen empty pint bottles, and a small rubber syphon hose or tube. In a woods pasture north of the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Childress v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
  2. Wall v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1930
  3. Ferguson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  4. Webb v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Beland v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954
  2. Wells v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1933
  3. White v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1935

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