Murray v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is possessing whisky in a container to which no tax stamp showing the payment of the tax due the State of Texas was affixed; the punishment, a fine of $100.00.

G. S. Lowe, an inspector of the Texas Liquor Control Board, testified that on the 10th of April, 1939, he and A. C. McDonald, who was employed by the Federal Alcoholic Taxing Unit, went to a house at No. 727 Forsythe Street in the City of Beaumont, and instituted a search for intoxicating liquor. The witness entered the house through the front door while Mr. McDonald went around the building to the rear…