Grant v. State

Defendant was charged, under section 4621 of the Code of 1923, with-possessing illegally prohibited liquors contrary to law.

The evidence for the state tends to prove that the officers went to defendant’s house and “found two fruit jars and another half full of home-brew. It looked like home-brew. It was out on the water shelf in fruit jars in the water bucket.” Prohibited liquors are defined by section 4615 of the Code of 1923. Among the definitions there given as to what constitutes prohibited liquors is:

“Brewed or fermented liquors and beverages by whatever name called.”

The courts do not…