Schaefer v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

Acting under a search warrant officers went to appellant’s home and found in a small rock house (called the “dairy house”) near the residence five gallons of peach brandy, two gallons of cherry wine, sixty bottles of “home brew,” caps and a capping machine. A chemist who made an analysis of samples of each kind of the liqutir found testified that the peach brandy contained 9.6 per cent of alcohol by volume, the cherry wine 8.8 per cent, and the home brew 3.4…