Franklin v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for having in his possession intoxicating liquor not for medicinal, scientific or sacramental purposes, and his punishment fixed at two years and six months in the penitentiary.

The State’s evidence places the intoxicants in his possession in an automobile. He was found in the car by the officers with one Andrew Wilson, who was driving it. The whisky was taken, and appellant was shot by one of the officers. The connecting testimony is given by Wilson. He says: “Along about the 25th of May, or the latter part of May, this year, Eugene Franklin and I went…