Knott v. State

Conviction is for the transportation of intoxicating liquor. Punishment fixed at three years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charged appellant, Leslie Fairchild, Wanda Knott and Katherine Fairchild jointly with transporting intoxicating liquor. Officers testified that they were watching a Packard automobile and saw it drive to a certain warehouse or garage outside the city of Beaumont; that they waited until the car came back, stopped it and found packed in the back of the car 240 quarts of whisky. The whisky had some sort of covering over it. In the car at the time were appellant and the…