Hurd v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted on a charge of possession of intoxicating liquor, and sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment in the county jail of Seminole county for 30 days, and to pay a fine of $50. Motion for new trial was filed, considered, and overruled, and defendant has appealed to this court.

Briefly, the testimony of the state is that the deputy sheriff went out to the farm on which the defendant was living and searched defendant’s home and did not find any intoxicáting liquors. But some distance from defendant’s home, in and near a bam, he…