Johnson v. State

This was a conviction for violating chapter 12, Acts of 1917, known as the Bone Dry Law. The defendant was tried by the judge without a jury, by consent of parties, found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $250, and to serve sixty days in the workhouse.

The assignments relate to the sufficiency of the evidence, particularly in that the liquor is shown to have been found on premises where the defendant resided with her husband, it being insisted that the presumption applied that the liquor belonged to the husband as the head of the house. The case of Flora Crocker v. State, 148 Tenn., 106,…