Simpson v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Marshall County of the offense of illegal possession of prohibited liquors. Title 29, Sec. 98, Code 1940.

Trial was by the Court without a jury. Punishment was a fine of $500.00 and six months hard labor for Marshall County.

The testimony for the State was that deputies of the Sheriff of Marshall County, Stone and Bearden, executed a search warrant by searching defendant’s home on December 29, 1867; that they found in the kitchen 1 pint of Vodka, 2 pints of bonded whiskey and five cans of beer. It was “state tax paid whiskey.”