Davis v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful possession of illegal liquors. The trial was by the court without a jury.

The tendency of the state’s evidence was that officers, acting under a search warrant, found, among several empty bottles and jugs, a pint bottle containing “white whiskey” in defendant’s smokehouse. The quantity of liquid in the bottle was described by one officer as from one teaspoon to one tablespoon and by another as two tablespoons. The bottle was introduced in evidence.

The officers found a five-gallon jug almost full of “wildcat whiskey,” buried in honeysuckle…