Booker v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted in the District Court of Wheeler County, for unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquors, and his punishment assessed at one year in the penitentiary.

The facts, briefly stated, are that on the day of the alleged offense the officers discovered, near the public road at a point close to the town of Shamrock, about seven gallons of whiskey in jugs and fruit jars. They immediately concealed themselves and watched same until about dusk, when the appellant and one Glenn King drove up in appellant’s car, stopped, and appellant got out and went to the place…