Legal Opinion

Roberts v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided January 23, 1962No. 4 Div. 454PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

PRICE, Judge.

This appellant has been convicted under .an indictment charging the transportation of prohibited liquors or beverages in quantities of five gallons or more, an offense denounced by Section 187, Title 29, Code of Alabama 1940.

This cause must be reversed because of the insufficiency of the evidence tending to show the quantity of the alleged whiskey being transported was five gallons or more. Rungan v. State, 25 Ala.App. 287, 145 So. 171, and because the testimony that the liquor in the container was whiskey was the statement of a mere conclusion on the part of the witnesses.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Rungan v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1932
  2. Blevins v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1940

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Blackwell v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1964

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