Case Name: BANKS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-10-22
Citations: 265 S.W. 553
Docket Number: No. 8130
Parties: BANKS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 265
Pages: 553–553

Head Matter:
BANKS v. STATE.
(No. 8130.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Oct. 22, 1924.)
1. Intoxicating liquors <8=236(20) — Evidence of transporting held sufficient.
Evidence held sufficient to support conclusion that defendant was transporting intoxicating liquors.
2. Witnesses <8=240(4) — Question, “Did they have any packages? ” not leading.
Question, “Did they have any packages?” is not leading.
3. Intoxicating liquors <©=>233(I) — Question not immaterial or irrelevant to transportation.
Question, “Did they [defendant and his companion] have any packages V ” held not immaterial or irrelevant on prosecution for transporting intoxicating liquor.
4. Witnesses <8=248 (2) — Answer not objectionable as not responsive.
Witness having testified that sacks contained whisky, his answer, “The whisky; yes,” to the question whether defendant hit the sacks against a tree, was not objectionable as not responsive.
Appeal from District Court, Cooke County; C. R. Pearman, Judge.
Terry Banks was convicted of violating the liquor laws, and appeals.
Affirmed.
Culp, Culp & Culp, of Gainesville, for appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Cooke county of •transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.
Two witnesses testify for the state that on the occasion in question they saw appellant and another party with two sacks on their backs, going from the woods, and that, when appellant discovered said witnesses, he and his companion proceeded to strike their two sacks against trees and broke the containers that were in them. The state witnesses went at once to the place and found, as they testified, broken fruit jars and sacks, from which whisky was dripping and running. The witnesses testified that the liquid which had been in the containers was whisky. Appellant testified that he and Roy Brackin went out in a car with Bert Morganson, on the occasion in question, to a point near where the officers later arrested him. There they left the ear and went down in- the woods and found two sacks. They picked up the sacks and started to go back over to the car and saw the officers coming; and that Roy hit his sack against a tree and told appellant to hit his, which he did, He averred that he did not know what was in the sacks. We think the facts sufficiently supported the conclusion of the jury that appellant and his' companion transported intoxicating liquor.
There is a bill of exceptions complaining of the action of the court in per-, mitting the state's attorney to ask a witness,referring to appellant and Brackin, "Did they have any packages?" to which the witness answered, "They had a -sack apiece on their shoulders." We are unable 1io perceive how this question was leading, or how it referred to a matter that was either immaterial or irrelevant.
Another bill complains that one of said witnesses, who was asked by the state's attorney if appellant and Brackin hit the sacks against a tree, replied, "The whisky; yes." We see no reasonable ground for objecting to this upon the proposition that the answer was not responsive. The witness had testified that the sacks contained whisky. By another bill of exceptions, complaint is made that a witness testified that when he went up to where the sacks had been struck against a tree he smelled something that smelled like whisky.
Being of opinion that the record does not evidence any error in the trial of the case, the judgment will be affirmed.
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