Hill v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The offense is the possession of intoxicating liquor and the punishment is three years in the penitentiary.

The facts show that one Holmes, a white man, was found in a car a few miles east of Canton and that said car had a large quantity of whiskey in it. Appellant was arrested in the town of Canton, and made a statement in which he admitted that he came there with a man named Holmes, but stated that he had left Fort-Worth as a mechanic; that he did not know there was any whiskey in the car until a short time before the battery went dead just east of Canton; that he learned that…