Epps v. State

■Mr. Justice Buruett

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Epps was convicted under an indictment charging the felonious transportation of intoxicating liquors, with the punishment fixed at not more than four years confinement in a state prison. He has seasonably appealed and says that (1) his arrest was unlawful, and (2) the search of his car was unauthorized, and that the testimony of the officers as to their discovery of the liquor was, therefore, inadmissible. The Assistant Attorney General in his reply brief very fully and fairly states the facts as follows:

“Two highway patrolmen stationed…