Case ID: sw_257/html/0266-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WOOTAN v. STATE.
    (No. 8038.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 2, 1924.)
    intoxicating liquors &wkey;?236(l9) — Evidence held to warrant conviction for manufacturing.
    Evidence held, to warrant a conviction for the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor.
    Appeal from District Court, Llano County; J. H. McLean, Judge.
    I. B. Wootan was convicted of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., of Midland, and Grover O. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., of Devine, for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Conviction is for the uñi-lawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor. Punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

There are no bills of exception in the record. Appellant offered no testimony whatever. The evidence for the state leaves no question of appellant’s guilt. The sheriff arrested him at his residence, he being intoxicated at the time. Whisky and mash were found there. In and near the house was found a'still, and a witness testified for the state that he had helped appellant make whisky.

The judgment is affirmed.