Maxwell v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is transporting intoxicating liquor; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

The sheriff of Jack county and one of his deputies waited on the highway for appellant to approach. Finally appellant drove by the parties in his automobile. As he passed them they followed him. With the officers driving a short distance behind his car, appellant drove two and one-half miles to a filling station. As he drove his car into the filling station, the officers were about thirty feet behind him. Just as appellant stopped his car, the officers drove up…