Whittington v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Operating under a search warrant, officers went to a house in the town of Amarillo for the purpose of making a search for intoxicating liquor. Upon entering the house they saw appellant and Neal Cobb. Upon seeing the officers, Cobb ran out in the back yard where he was stopped by one of the officers. We quote a portion of the testimony of deputy sheriff Vanderpool, as follows:

“When I saw them it looked like they were bottling up whisky, and…