Simmons v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for the possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

No objection was made to the charge of the court, and no bills of exception appear in the record save one raising the question of the insufficiency of the evidence.

An officer with a search warrant went to appellant’s premises. He found in a chicken yard which joined the yard of appellant’s dwelling house a fifty gallon barrel of corn mash buried. The top of the barrel was about a foot under the ground with tin over it to keep the dirt out. Under the dwelling…