Walker v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale in a dry area, and by the jury assessed a fine of $500.00.

The facts show that appellant, a negro, leased the premises called No. 1719 Ave. B. in the City of Lubbock from Mr. Trammel, a white man, whose daughter ran a grocery in a building owned by Trammel, and 1719 Ave. B was an apartment in the rear of such store building. The State’s testimony showed that outside of No. 1719, about a foot from the wall thereof, in a ten-gallon milk can buried in the ground, the officers found-four…