O'Burke v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for the transportation of intoxicating liquor; punishment being two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant did not testify. The only witnesses introduced by him gave evidence to the effect that appellant had never been convicted of a felony. The evidence for the state shows the following: Peace officers had reason to suspect that a certain house situated on Fifth street in the city of Port Arthur was a place where intoxicating liquors were either being sold or orders were taken therein for the delivery of intoxicating liquor. Some two weeks prior to the transaction…