Hooter v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Dallas county of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.

This is a companion case to Miller v. State, 263 S. W. Rep. 919, and in our judgment must be reversed for the same error which we deemed reversible in the Miller case.

The State’s case proceeded upon the hypothesis that appellant and others, hired one William Taylor to make whisky, starting him at a salary of '$35 a week which was increased to $75 later. The whisky was being made in a little house in Taylor’s…