McNutt v. State

The appellant, McNutt, was tried and convicted in the circuit court for possessing intoxicating liquor, and sentenced to a fine of five hundred dollars and ninety days in jail. The case arose because the sheriff had some kind of information, which is not disclosed in the record, that the appellant was coming along the public highway with intoxicating liquor in his car, and the sheriff stationed himself and his deputies along the highways, and, when appellant came along, the sheriff halted him and searched the car, and found therein a large quantity of intoxicating liquor, whereupon he…