Case Name: BILLINGSLEA v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-02-07
Citations: 69 S.W.2d 411
Docket Number: No. 16348
Parties: BILLINGSLEA v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 69
Pages: 411–411

Head Matter:
BILLINGSLEA v. STATE.
No. 16348.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 7, 1934.
Rehearing Denied March 28, 1934.
A. B. Haworth, of Comanche, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction for possessing intoxicating liquor for purposes of sale; .punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
A Mrs. Corbin lived in the little town of •Gustine, Comanche county, Tex. Appellant, who was her brother, lived there also. Mrs. •Corbin's 18 year old son testified that on a certain occasion he helped appellant carry into a kind of blacksmith shop or toolhouse on said premises a tool box of whose contents witness was without knowledge. .Officers testified that on the occasion here in •question, armed, with a search warrant to search Mrs. Corbin's premises, they went to the place, and, among others, searched this blacksmith shop or toolhouse, and observing the box and a number of empty whisky bottles' around it, they shook the box, then opened it, and found in it a considerable quantity of whisky. Each of the other persons who lived at said place was introduced as a witness, and all of them denied any knowledge of or ownership of, or connection with, said whisky. The record is here without any bills of exception. We deem the evidence sufficient.
The judgment will be affirmed.