Lead Opinion
The offense is transporting intoxicating liquor; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.
The caрtion fails to show the date of the adjournment of the triаl court. Under the decisions of this court the appеal must be dismissed. Howle v. State,
The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.
The foregoing opinion оf the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals :and apprоved by the Court.
Addendum
ON.MOTION TO REINSTATE APPEAL.
At a former day this court dismissed this case because of a defective caption in the record. Since then the record has been perfeсted, and, upon a motion duly .made, the case will be reinstated and considered on its merits.
The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment ^assessed at cоnfinement, in the state, penitentiary for a term of 5 yeаrs. .•
The testimony .adduced by .the state shows' that on the 5th day оf August, 1933, George A. Chaney, ¿ deputy sheriff, searched the aрpellant’s automobile while it was parked on Camр Street in the city of Crockett ahd found therein three one-half pint bottles of whisky. The appellant was not аt the car at the time of the search but was down at the corner. The state then introduced a judgment of conviction entered against the appellant on the 5th of November, 1930, on a charge of unlawfully transporting intоxicating liquor. The appellant offered no evidеnce.
The appellant contends that the evidence does not warrant
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his conviction. After a careful considerаtion of the state’s testimony, we are inclined to agree with the appellant’s contention. The testimony shows that the car was parked on Camp Street at thе time it was searched, but that the appellant was nоt in or at the car. Just how long the car had been pаrked or by whom it was driven when parked is not disclosed by any tеstimony, nor when or by whom the whisky was placed in it. Hence, it fаiled to show a transportation of said liquor by the appellant. In the case of Payne v. State,
Having reached the conclusion that the evidence fails to measure up to the requirеments of the law which would justify a conviction on the chаrge of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquor, the judgment of the triаl court is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.