Moten v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; punishment assessed at one year in the penitentiary.

The facts, disclose that the sheriff of Houston county, accompanied by his deputy, E. H. Baker, had a warrant for the arrest of a negro by the name of Washington, and had information that he had stayed all night the night before at appellant’s house, and that about dusk that evening they went to appellant’s house looking for the negro; as they drove up to the house, they saw through a window a negro girl hide some whisky in appellant’s house under a bed.…