Hinton v. State

Christian, Judge.

The offense is possessing intoxicating liquor in a dry area for the purpose of sale; the punishment, confinement in jail for fifty days.

Officers went to the home of Cliff May in the afternoon of December 18, 1987, for the purpose of making a search for intoxicating liquor. Entering the house through the back door, they heard a woman say: “There is the law.” They then heard some kind of noise inside which sounded like the breaking of bottles. May, the owner of the house, was standing in the door leading to the back porch, with a hatchet in his hand. Entering a room in the…