Case Name: CLEVENGER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-10-03
Citations: 255 S.W. 622
Docket Number: No. 7732
Parties: CLEVENGER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 255
Pages: 622–622

Head Matter:
CLEVENGER v. STATE.
(No. 7732.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Oct. 3, 1923.
Rehearing Granted Nov. 14, 1923.)
1. Criminal law <&wkey;409l (8) — Bill of exceptions held to present no error.
A hill complaining of the statement of the prosecuting attorney in argument to the effect that accused had told a different story to the officer when he was caught with possession of the liquor held, to present- no error where it did- not negative the fact that the argument related to part of the evidence in the case.
' On Motion for Rehearing.
2. Intoxicating liquors <&wkey;>236(20) — Accused not required to "prove truth of his affirmative defense liquor was purchased for medicinal purposes, proof raising reasonable doubt being sufficient.
Where, in a prosecution for unlawfully transporting liquor, accused interposed affirmative defense that he purchased the whisky for medicinal purposes,.the Burden was not on him to prove its truth, it being required only that the evidence be such as to establish such facts as would leave in the minds of the jury a reasonable doubt as to its truth, and hence it was error to refuse to instruct the jury to acquit if they believed he transported the liquor for medicine “or had a reasonable doubt as to whether that was his purpose in transporting it.”
©=>For other oases see same topic and KEY-NUMBER in ail Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes.
Appeal from District Court, Angelina County; L. D. Guinn, Judge.
Joe T. Clevenger was convicted of unlawfully- transporting intoxicating liquor, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Poston & Seale, of Dufkin, Tom E. Coleman, of Woodvillé, and Seale & Denman and Edgar H. Johnson, all of Nacogdoches, for appellant.
W. A. Keeling, Atty. Gen., and C. L. Stone, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the. State.

Opinion:
MORROW, P. J.
Conviction is for the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.
Appellant had in his possession while riding horseback along the public road two quarts of whisky tied to his saddle. He declared in his testimony that he was taking the whisky to his home for medicinal purposes. This issue, thus raised, was submitted to the jury, and they were instructed that if he was carrying the whisky to his home for medicinal purposes an acquittal should result.
There is. a bill complaining of .the statement of the prosecuting attorney in argument to the effect that'appellant had told a different story- to the officers when he was caught. We find nothing in the bill which negatives the fact that the argument related to part of the evidence in the case. The bill, therefore, reveals no error.
The judgment is affirmed.