Case Name: Bobble BOYTE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1954-10-27
Citations: 272 S.W.2d 100
Docket Number: No. 27120
Parties: Bobble BOYTE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 272
Pages: 100–101

Head Matter:
Bobble BOYTE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 27120.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Oct. 27, 1954.
J. C. Jacobs, Corsicana, for appellant.
Wesley Dice, State’s Atty., Austin, for the state.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Judge.
The offense is the possession of whiskey and wine in a dry area for the purpose of sale; the punishment, one day in jail.
Constable Norton and Liquor Control Inspector Sparks testified that they went to the house occupied by the appellant, her husband and her children, armed with a search warrant and that they did not find any liquor in the house but did find some in trash outside the back fence.
Appellant, testifying in her own behalf, denied that she knew anything about the liquor found outside her fence and back of her outhouse.
The record is silent as to the presence of the appellant's husband at the time of the search.
There is an entire absence of any showing that the appellant exercised any control or management of the liquor in question so as to implicate her rather than her husband.
In Wade v. State, 147 Tex.Cr.R. 613, 183 S.W.2d 576; Gonzales v. State, 143 Tex.Cr.R. 48, 156 S.W.2d 988; Peters v. State, 142 Tex.Cr.R. 146, 151 S.W.2d 592; Watson v. State, 114 Tex.Cr.R. 117, 24 S. W.2d 830; and Smith v. State, 90 Tex.Cr.R. 273, 234 S.W. 893, we have held such evidence insufficient to support the conviction.
The judgment is reversed and the, cause remanded.