Davis v. State

Guy Davis was convicted of violating the Code, § 58-1077, in that he did possess whisky in Floyd County, a county which had not legalized and controlled alcoholic beverages and liquors under the revenue tax act. His motion for new trial as amended was overruled and he excepted.

It appears from the evidence, construing it most strongly against the defendant, that the place of business (a “whisky or beer joint”) in question and the house in which the defendant resided were on the same side of the road or street, about eighty or ninety yards apart. A path which led from the back of the house down…