McSwain v. State

The appellant, D. T. McSwain, was indicted.and convicted on a charge of unlawfully having in his possession intoxicating liquor, and was sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred fifty dollars and to serve a term of thirty days in jail; and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal.

The evidence upon which the conviction is based was obtained by a search of a building in which the appellant conducted a general mercantile business, the search being made under a search warrant dated and issued on September 19, 1929, and returnable on September 14, 1929. In the case of Buckley v.…