Medlin v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for transporting intoxicating liquor, punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

Through field glasses officers watched appellant and three other parties load a truck and drive away from a house. They saw them later unload from the truck a still which was rolled into a ravine. The officers then searched the truck and found two hundred fifty-eight gallons of whiskey. An examination of the house revealed barrels with the combined capacity of five or six hundred gallons; they were empty but had remnants of mash in them. The truck belonged to appellant. He did not…