Wells v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment assessed being five years confinement in the penitentiary.

On the 26th day of June, 1930, officers, acting under a search warrant, searched the house and premises of J. J. Nowell. In all, they discovered one hundred and ninety-five gallons of whisky. Sixty gallons were buried in a maize patch some little distance from the house, the remainder being found in the house. The whisky was in cartons, each carton containing twelve half-gallon jars. Nowell testified that by arrangement with appellant he…