Walker v. State

Walker was convicted of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor and appeals.

He contends that the evidence is insufficient to convict him, and that his request for a peremptory instruction in the trial court should, have been granted and that he should be discharged here.

A summary of the evidence is this: On August 28,1945, the officers found in an open cotton field some three hundred yards from the home of appellant, where he and his family were residing, a ten gallon keg and two one gallon jugs of whiskey. The land upon which the whiskey was found belonged to appellant, but he had it…