Legal Opinion

Vaughn v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 12, 1930No. 13636Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The evidence is challenged as insufficient to show that the liquid transported by the appellant was intoxicating. Two witnesses, who claimed to have knowledge of the odor, taste and appearance of whisky, testified that the liquid transported by the appellant was whisky. They saw the fruit jars as they were broken, examined some of the liquid in the lid of a broken jar and also on paper on which the liquid had been spilled, smelled the ground where the jars had been broken which was wet from the liquid, and stated that they knew it was whisky.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Cathey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  2. Vaughn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1930
  3. Kellum v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925
  4. Yarbrough v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1928

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