Thomas v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Violating Prohibition Law. Appeal from Morgan Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Ti-iomas W. Wert. Marion Tbomas was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals.
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Violating Prohibition Law. Appeal from Morgan Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Ti-iomas W. Wert. Marion Tbomas was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals. The state witness testified that he went into Thomas’ place of business, and on coming out he met a negro whom he.had not seen before, but who winked at him, and he then asked the negro if he knew where he could get some whisky, and he said “Yes,” and witness gave him money and told him to get him some; that he watched the back door to see if he went out that way as he had gone in the front door, “and I saw Thomas…
1Opinion of the CourtPelham, P. J.
The facts testified to- by the state’s witnesses as to the transaction in which the defendant whs seen to change some money with and give to the supposed “go-between” a paper sack containing six half pints of whisky, which he delivered to the state’s witnesses in completing a sale between them, for which the said witnesses had previously furnished the money with the understanding that they were to receive the whisky, were sufficient to afford a basis for an inference of the defendant’s guilt of the crime charged, and the court properly submitted that question to the jury, and refused *296to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Tice v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1911
- Staples v. SteedAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912
3Cited by3 opinions
- Williams v. MayoSupreme Court of Florida · 1937
- Garner v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1949
- Ex parte Thomas v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1915