Taylor v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Milam County of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.

The charge in the indictment is the manufacture of spirituous, etc., liquor, containing more than one per cent of alcohol by volume. The proof showed by analysis of the State chemist the liquor made by appellant contained more than ten per cent of alcohol by volume. The defensive theory was that it was made for medicinal purposes only, and in support thereof appellant proved that he had been in bad health and was making…