Case Name: Henry Harrison v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-05-21
Citations: 97 Tex. Crim. 540
Docket Number: No. 8134
Parties: Henry Harrison v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 97
Pages: 540–542

Head Matter:
Henry Harrison v. The State.
No. 8134.
Decided May 21, 1924.
Rehearing denied June 11, 1924.
1. — Manufacturing Intoxicating Liquor.
Where, upon trial of unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor, the evidence sustained the conviction, and the record being without bills of exception the judgment below is affirmed.
2. — Same—Rehearing—Sufficiency of the Evidence — Cross-Examination.
Where appellant complained vigorously of the insufficiency of the testimony in his motion for rehearing and as.serted that he made an exculpatory statement was brought out by appellant himself upon dross-exahination, and the State was therefore bound thereby, but the record showed that this statement was brought out by appellant himself upon cross-examination, and the evidence was amply sufficient to sustain the conviction, there is no reversible error.
Appeal from the District Court of San Jacinto. Tried below before the Honorable J. L. Manry.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the ease.
M. E. Gates, for appellant.
Tom Garrard, Attorney for the State and Grover C. Morris, Assistant Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the District Court of San Jacinto County of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
The record is without bills of exception, and it is only argued before us that the facts failed to show guilt. Officers went to appellant's house with a search warrant and found in his kitchen behind the stove a barrel of soured mash and hidden under the floor a used still and in various places a large number of bottles each containing the odor of whisky and some of them a small quantity of it. According to the testimony of one of the officers appellant admitted to him that he had been making whisky with the mash and apparatus found. This seems to fully meet the demands of the law, and believing that it supports the verdict of the jury, an affirmance will be ordered.
Affirmed.