Govance v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is transporting intoxicating liquor, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Appellant admitted that he transported the liquor in question, but contended that it was transported for medicinal use by him and certain members of his family. Several witnesses supported his testimony to the effect that tuberculosis was hereditary in his family, and that several members thereof had died from the disease. The state’s testimony showed, and it was admitted by appellant, that he first carried the whiskey to the house of a neighbor and gave him a drink,…