Crossett v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of unlawfully possessing for the purpose of sale spirituous liquor capable of producing intoxication, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for one year and threé months.

The appellant, who resided at Amarillo, Texas, and W. I. Pate and a lady friend were arrested by a deputy sheriff at a tourist cabin near the town of Quitaque in Briscoe County -on the evening of December 24, 1933, and were taken before the justice of peace of said town. The sheriff testified that after the appellant was in…