Cook v. States

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

In the District Court a general verdict of guilty was returned against J. Revi Cook, the plaintiff in error, the defendant below, and so styled here. He was tried upon an information which in three counts charged against him — First, possession of intoxicants; second, their sale; third, the máintaining as a common nuisance a place in which they were sold. He admits that between 9 and 10 o’clock at night he was found walking along a road towards his house, carrying a gallon of moonshine liquor, and he therefore does not question the propriety of his conviction on the first…