Taylor v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

Appellant ran a hamburger stand, and used her place of business as a residence. Operating under a search warrant, officers searched the place and found therein approximately seventy bottles of beer. Testifying in her own behalf, appellant denied that she had ever sold any of the beer, and declared that she used it strictly for medicinal purposes.

On the motion for new trial it was developed that one of the jurors was well acquainted with the…