Case Name: Jim Weatherly v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1928-03-07
Citations: 109 Tex. Crim. 548
Docket Number: No. 11210
Parties: Jim Weatherly v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 109
Pages: 548–550

Head Matter:
Jim Weatherly v. The State.
No. 11210.
Delivered March 7, 1928.
Rehearing denied May 16, 1928.
The opinion states the case.
S. J. Osborne of Breckenridge, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson of Canton, State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction for possessing intoxicating liquor for purposes of sale, punishment one year in the penitentiary.
Officers, with the consent of appellant, searched his restaurant and found therein a quantity of whiskey and a large number of various kinds of containers, all of which had the odor and evidence of the prior presence of liquor in them.
There are two bills of exception, each presenting substantially the same complaint. It appears that when the officers found the whiskey they took same into where appellant was and then arrested him. He followed one of the officers out on the porch of the restaurant and there said to him that he hoped they would make it light on him as it was the first he had had or handled for a long time. The exception of this statement is the matter complained of in the bills of exception. We have no doubt of the propriety of receiving this testimony upon the ground that it was a part of the res gestae. Plunk v. State, 274 S. W. 156.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.