Singleton v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a fine of $250.00 on a conviction for transporting liquor in a dry territory.

On March 11, 1943, appellant and two other negroes were in a much dilapidated automobile and were followed along the streets of Marshall, Harrison County, for a distance of some seven or eight blocks. They stopped in front of a house and ■ appellant, the driver of the car, got out and approached the house with three or four bottles of beer. One officer stopped him while another instituted a search of the car and from it he recovered one quart of wine, two one-half pint bottles…