Belts v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

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

Under authority of a proper warrant the sheriff searched a garage owned by appellant and found therein twenty-two pints of whiskey. Some of it was in pint bottles and some in fruit jars. One pint bottle had a funnel in it. The whole situation presented an appearance as though the whiskey was being transferred from the fruit jars to the pint bottles. The sheriff testified that when he told appellant he wanted to search the garage appellant said he had some…