Kelly v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The appellant was convicted in the District Court of Rockwall County for the offense of transporting liquor and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of one year.

By bill of exception No. 1, complaint is made at the action of the court in permitting the sheriff of Rockwall County to bring two half-gallon fruit jars containing whiskey into the court room while the jury were being questioned on their voir dire. There is nothing in the bill to show that this whiskey was not the same for which he was being tried for transporting. In this condition of…