Patton v. State

Pursuant to a valid search warrant a group of officers searched appellant’s automobile and found on the floor between the front and rear seats a cardboard carton containing about 15 or 18 bottles, all practically empty, *140but by pouring all the contents into one half-pint bottle they managed to accumulate intoxicating liquor therein to the depth of about one inch, being approximately one or one and one-half ounces.

Two affidavits were made against appellant in a justice of the peace court, one for the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and one for public drunkenness. Upon a trial by…