Hazzard v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

According to the State’s witness Mannahan, a deputy sheriff, he saw the appellant riding horseback in his field about 300 yards from his dwelling-house. Upon his arrival at the house the officer found a half-gallon fruit jar of whiskey wrapped up in the appellant’s slicker and tied to his saddle. The officer said to him: “What is that on your saddle?” Appellant replied: “Whiskey, it is mine.” •

Appellant introduced testimony to the effect…