McDowell v. State

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of salé in dry area.

Acting under authority of a search warrant officers found on appellant’s premises 96 cans of Grand Prize beer, 33 bottles of Falstaff beer and two pints of whisky. Appellant testified thát the liquor in question had been bought by him for his *531own personal use, and that he had it for such purpose and not for the purpose of sale.

The State proved over appellant’s objection by one of the officers that some two months before the raid he had bought a pint of whisky from appellant at the…