Case Name: Edwin OCHOA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1955-05-11
Citations: 278 S.W.2d 849
Docket Number: No. 27604
Parties: Edwin OCHOA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 278
Pages: 849–849

Head Matter:
Edwin OCHOA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 27604.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 11, 1955.
E. A. Blair, Lubbock, for appellant.
Leon Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Presiding Judge.
The offense is transportation of whiskey in a dry area; the punishment, six months in jail and a fine of $200.
Inspector Smith of the Liquor Control Board testified that he was riding along a street in the City of Lubbock in company with other officers on the day in question and observed the appellant walking from an automobile toward the front door of. his house carrying some packages which resembled "lugs" (the manner of packing whiskey in a dry area), that the 'officer's automobile was brought to a halt, and that he went through a neighbor's yard and saw the appellant run out his back gate apd down an alley to a trash barrel where he deposited the packages he was carrying. Smith stated that he retrieved the packages and found that one contained three %ths quarts and the other six pints of whiskey.
Inspector Truly corroborated a portion of Smith's testimony.
The appellant did not testify or offer any evidence in his behalf.
It is appellant's contention that the evidence is insufficient because the transporting was done upon his own premises. With this contention, we cannot agree. Smith testified that after the appellant went out 'his back gate he "made a left turn down the alley and about the corner of his property there, he has trash barrels the trash barrel was really in the alley next to the back yard fence."'
The cases cited by the appellant have no application 'to the facts before us here.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.