State v. Patterson

Henry Patterson was charged by an affidavit before a justice of the peace for unlawfully having control or possession of intoxicating liquor against the peace and dignity of the state, and was by the justice of the peace convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and costs, from which an appeal was prosecuted to the circuit court. In the circuit court an agreed statement of facts was made in which it was agreed that two officers had located a jug of whisky, and had hidden themselves for the purpose of apprehending the owner thereof, and while they were in hiding the…