Deadwiley v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for manufacturing intoxicating liquor; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

Officers found whisky in appellant’s home. He testified that he was ill and had made the intoxicating liquor for his own use as medicine under the advice of a physician. He introduced a doctor who testified that he had told appellant that the use of whisky would be good for the stomach trouble from which he judged appellant to be suffering. Appellant testified at great length, being vigorously cross-examined by the state’s attorney:

Appellant’s chief complaint appears in his second bill…