Rochelle v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge. —

The offense is the possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year and six months.

The appellant was apprehended at a social gathering of negroes. In his automobile there were three quart jars full of com whiskey, one fruit jar about half full, a “soda-water bottle with the odor of whiskey and two empty fruit jars with the odor of whiskey in them.” This was at night at about eleven o’clock. Peace officers testified that they left Texarkana about nine o’clock at night to go to the home of John…