Crowdis v. State

The plaintiffs in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendants, were convicted of possession of intoxicating liquor and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 each and to serve 60 days each in the county jail; from which judgment and sentence the defendants have appealed by petition in error, with case-made attached.

The evidence of the state shows that Garner Simpson, the sheriff of Custer county, went to the home of the defendants armed with a search warrant; he searched the premises of the defendants, and under the floor of their home found one gallon of whisky in two half-gallon fruit jars.…