Walden v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge. —

The offense is the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

The State’s testimony is to the effect that the appellant and two others were seem in an automobile in which there was found a fruit jar containing a half-gallon of whiskey and some other containers which the circumstances revealed had contained whiskey.

The appellant’s explanation of the transaction is in substance this: Without any whiskey in his car, he stopped it on the street after paying a visit to…