Burns v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, punishment being assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year and three months.

Acting under a search warrant, officers went to appellant’s place. When they entered, a young man was drinking beer; appellant had a bottle of beer in his hand, and was preparing *133to pull the cap off. One of the officers then went a little southwest from the house nineteen steps to some shrubbery, and there found a half a gallon of whisky and a pint of whisky. They also found northwest of the house a case of beer and…