Vaughn v. State

The three plaintiffs in error have appealed to this Court from a conviction for the felonious transportation of five gallons of whisky, the punishment of each being fixed at one year and a day in the State penitentiary.

Sheriff Warren is the only witness who testified in the case. The substance of his testimony is that on the first day of March, 1941, Fred Wester came to the jail and informed him that he had given the three plaintiffs in error ten dollars for five gallons of whisky, and that they had gone after it and unless he hurried they would return with it and deliver it at his place.…