Lamb v. State

Lamb was convicted of violation of the prohibition statute. The State proved that in his horse lot, in a dugout covered over by a locked plank door, was found, freshly buried in the ground, inore than sixty gallons of “liquor.” The defendant, in his statement at the trial, said that he had used this place for storing “liquor,” but had not so used it for a long time, — not since they found ninety gallons of “liquor” there had he so used it; that some one else had stored it there. There was no denial that the storage place was owned and controlled by the defendant. The contention that there was…