Copello v. State
| Decision Date | 03 October 1923 |
| Docket Number | (No. 7722.) |
| Citation | 254 S.W. 973 |
| Parties | COPELLO v. STATE. |
| Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Palo Pinto County; J. B. Keith, Judge.
Alossio Copello was convicted of transporting intoxicating liquor, and he appeals. Affirmed.
Ritchie & Ranspot, of Mineral Wells, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
The conviction is for transporting intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.
According to the uncontroverted testimony, appellant carried a sack containing two gallons and one quart of whisky in jugs. This he brought to his dwelling house after carrying it a mile and a half. In his testimony he said that a man named Calleto gave the sack to him to bring to his house; that he did not know the whereabouts of Calleto, but was told by him that the jugs contained Grape. Appellant also said that he did not intend to sell the whisky; that he did not know the sack contained whisky. Appellant's reputation for truth and veracity and as a law-abiding citizen was good.
We are constrained to believe that the evidence supports the conviction. The distance shown by the evidence and such quantity of whisky as was in appellant's possession put upon appellant the burden of introducing upon his trial some testimony to the effect that the conveyance of the liquor was for some purpose permitted by law. See Lott v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 251 S. W. 1070; Robert v. State, 90 Tex. Cr. R. 133, 234 S. W. 89.
The indictment contains two counts, namely: That appellant unlawfully transported liquor capable of producing intoxication, and that he possessed for the purpose of sale liquor capable of producing intoxication. The count charging transportation was alone submitted to the jury. There was evidence supporting this averment, and a general verdict of guilt as charged was properly applied to the count under which the accused was tried.
The part of the indictment descriptive of the liquor was like that held sufficient in the case of Tucker v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 251 S. W. 1090.
The testimony of the sheriff to the effect that he found a pint of whisky in the home of appellant was not rendered incompetent on account of the method by which the sheriff ascertained the facts. See Welchek v. State, 93 Tex. Cr. R. 271, 247 S. W. 524.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment is affirmed.
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