Case ID: sw_281/html/1052-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McGEE v. STATE.
    (No. 10051.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 31, 1926.)
    1. Intoxicating liquors <&wkey;236(20).
    Evidence held to sustain, conviction for unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquor.
    2, Intoxicating liquors <®=3|38 — “Transportation” had begun when accused, who had taken jugs of whisky from hiding place, started to automobile in which he was driven away with the whisky.
    “Transportation” of liquor held to have begun when the accused, who had taken some jugs of whisky from their hiding place underneath' weeds, started to an automobile in which he was driven away with the whisky.
    [Ed. Note. — Eor other definitions, see Words and Phrases, Eirst and Second Series, Transport — Transportation.]
    Appeal from District Court, Howard. County; W. P. Leslie, Judge.
    Sammy McGee was convicted of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquor, and •he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Clyde E. Thomas, of Big Springs, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Robt. M. Lyles, Asst. State’s Atty., of Groesbeck, for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Conviction is for the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor, with punishment of one year in the penitentiary.

The record contains no bills of exception nor objection to the court’s charge. The evidence sustains the verdict. Officers had discovered two gallon jugs of whisky under some weeds in a lane. They secreted themselves near by. Appellant and two other parties drove down the lane in an automobile. As it went slowly by the point where the whisky was hidden, appellant stepped out of the car and went to the whisky. The car was turned around some 50 yards beyond this point, and, as it came slowly back, appellant picked up the two gallons of whisky and started to the car, at which time the officers called to him. He threw the jugs in the car, and fell in himself, and the ear speeded away. The officers later found the car in town with the broken jugs in it. The officers had examined the contents of the jugs, and ascertained it was whisky before appellant and his companions appeared on the scene. When appellant started to the automobile with the whisky, the transportation had begun. Lamb v. State, 255 S. W. 424, 95 Tex. Cr. R. 457; Lee v. State, 255 S. W. 425, 95 Tex. Cr. R. 654; Black v. State, 255 S. W. 731, 96 Tex. Cr. R. 56; Hannon v. State, 259 S. W. 1083, 98 Tex. Cr. R. 660; Finley v. State, 258 S. W. 1062, 96 Tex. Cr. R. 542; Tullos v. State, 268 S. W. 174, 99 Tex. Cr. R. 122; Winters v. State, 275 S. W. 1015, 101 Tex. Cr. R. 276.

The judgment is affirmed.

MORROW, P. J., absent.