Case Name: Bill Cook v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1926-03-24
Citations: 103 Tex. Crim. 592
Docket Number: No. 10039
Parties: Bill Cook v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 103
Pages: 592–592

Head Matter:
Bill Cook v. The State.
No. 10039.
Delivered March 24, 1926.
The opinion states the case.
Porter & Porter of Greenville, and Everett Bryson and J. A. Guest of Pittsburg, for the appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Robt. M. Lyles, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction in district court of Camp County of possessing intoxicating liquor for purposes of sale; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.
The record presents two bills of exception, each complaining of the refusal of the court to instruct the jury not to consider testimony, claimed to have been obtained in violation of the law. We are not in accord with the contention of appellant in either instance. According to the testimony it is shown without contradiction that appellant, riding in a stripped-down Ford car, approached the place where the state witness was. Upon being ordered to halt, appellant jumped out of the car, having a gunny sack in his hand with two gallons of whiskey in same. Appellant ran away leaving the whiskey in the road. It was picked up by the state witness who testified that the contents of the sack was whiskey, and that he picked it up in the road where appellant dropped it. We perceive nothing in this testimony even remotely suggesting that it was obtained in violation of law. The proposition seems too plain to need citation of the statute or discussion of its application.
The evidence amply sustaining the verdict, the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.