McClure v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction in for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, penalty two years in the penitentiary.

The evidence justified the verdict and judgment. The legal questions raised may be disposed of without burdening this opinion with a lengthy recital of the facts.

When the State proposed to prove by the officers that they found in defendant’s barn a concealed door in the bottom of the "horse trough” which led into a cellar in which was found a complete still and several gallons of whiskey, the objection was made that it had not been shown that the officers had a search…