Bolt v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is transporting intoxicating liquor; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

State.’s witnesses testified that they saw appellant transporting a quantity of whisky. Appellant denied that he transported the liquor and declared that he accidentally came upo,n said liquor as he was going home and had stopped for the purpose of taking a -drink when he was seen by the witnesses.

On the motion for new trial it was developed that one of the jurors had prior to appellant’s trial aided the officers in raiding some parties who had been engaged in…