Fields v. State

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor on a highway in this State, and by the jury assessed a fine of $100.00.

The testimony shows that one Jess Brewster, in the city of Post, Texas, hired appellant to take him in a car to Big Spring, and there Brewster purchased a case of whisky and six gallons of wine and placed the same in appellant's car. That on the way back, when in Garza County, the appellant and his passengers, there being Brewster and another, drank some of the liquor, and had a wreck with their car. Unfortunately for them, the sheriff of Garza…