Bratten v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquor, the punishment being two years in the penitentiary.

The officers intercepted a car which was being driven by appellant on the road between Shreveport and Dallas. In the back of the car they found one hundred and twenty quarts of whiskey and thirty-six gallons of alcohol. With appellant was a man by the name of Eccleston. Appellant’s defense was that he had formerly known Eccleston in Wichita, Kansas; that he ((appellant) had gone to Shreveport on the train and while there met Eccleston, who said he was going to…