Haggard v. State

The offense is the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

According to the state’s witness Mannahan, a deputy sheriff, he saw the appellant riding horseback in his field about 300 yards from his dwelling house. Upon his arrival at the house the officer' found a half-gallon fruit jar of whisky wrapped up in the appellant’s slicker and tied to ,his saddle. The' officer said to him; “What is that on your saddle?” Appellant replied: “Whisky; it is mine.”

Appellant introduced testimony to the effect that his reputation as a…