Case Name: KELSEY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1927-06-15
Citations: 296 S.W. 315
Docket Number: No. 10971
Parties: KELSEY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 296
Pages: 315–315

Head Matter:
KELSEY v. STATE.
(No. 10971.)
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 15, 1927.
Chastain & Judkins and M. E. Lawrence, all of Eastland, for appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., and Robt. M. Lyles, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMCRE, J.
Conviction of transporting intoxicating liquor; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.
We find no brief on file for the appellant. The record contains but one bill of exceptions, which complains of the fact that the jar of liquor introduced in evidence was handed to the jury, who passed the same from one to the other and smelled its contents. Such conduct is condemned in Reid v. State, 100 Tex. Cr. R. 512, 271 S. W. 625, in which case, however, we held that such improper circumstance would not call for a reversal, there being no showing of the fact that the jury received or appropriated any improper testimony as a result. In the instant case a number of witnesses testified to the fáet that the contents of the jar in question was whisky. No one eontrovert.ed that fact. Appellant appears to have offered n.o testimony.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment is affirmed.