Rhodes v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Kiowa on a charge of transporting a pint of intoxicating liquor and his punishment fixed at a fine of $50 and confinement in the county jail for a period of thirty days.

The evidence of the state was that the sheriff and two of his deputies were in the mouth of an alley in the town of Hobart; that the defendant and one Bodard were passing along the sidewalk at the mouth of the alley; that when they saw the officers, Bodard ran to the middle of the street and called to the defendant, “Throw it, Shorty”;…