Carr v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Jasper County of the offense of having in his possession intoxicating liquor, not for one of the purposes excepted by the statute, and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of one year.

The reversal of this case being made necessary by the failure of the court to submit the issue of suspended sentence, we desire to call attention to one or two other matters in view of another trial. Appellant asked the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty on the ground that the State had…