Legal Opinion

Gray v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided December 17, 1940No. 2 Div. 687PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

. SIMPSON, Judge.

The'appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Hale (a dry) County of the possession, contrary to law, of prohibited whiskey. Trial was before the court without a jury.

The uncontroverted evidence for the State that the defendant ran from the officer and threw from his pockets two pint bottles of “whiskey”, one of them a “Green River bottle”, that the witness (the officer) knew it was whiskey, c'ould tell it from the “smell”, was sufficient proof of the illegal character of the contents of the bottles. Code 1923, Sec. 4650; Posey v. State, Ala.App., 196 So. 749, 1…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Angling v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1902
  2. Booker v. City of BirminghamAlabama Court of Appeals · 1929
  3. Loman v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1922
  4. Posey v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1940

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Kennedy v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1958
  2. Edwards v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1949
  3. Daniel v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1961
  4. Roughton v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1954
  5. Phillips v. City of DothanCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1988

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