McBurnett v. State

Melvin McBurnett was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquor. His motion for a new trial is based .upon the general grounds and two special grounds, alleging error in the charge of the court.

Marcus Horton testified that at about four o’clock on the afternoon of August 12, 1928, he and C. I. Harris, another deputy sheriff, under the authority of a search warrant, searched the defendant’s residence, and found three pints of whisky in a dresser drawer in a room of the house; that this was the only whisky found about the premises; and that he did not know Mrs. Willie Mae White, but that…