Brice v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for possessing intoxicating liquor for purposes of sale; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

The facts show that officers, armed with a search warrant, went to appellant’s house; that he saw them coming and ran into the house, fastening the door behind him; that the officers pulled open the door and went in and found appellant breaking fruit jars in a sink; that the officers secured a quantity of the liquor which came out of the fruit jars, and testified that it was whisky; that judging from the number of fruit jars which were broken and whose tops and bottoms…