Lane v. State

John Lane was convicted of the offense of having, controlling and possessing spirituous liquors. Sheriff G. M. Walton testified: that just as he and Mr. John F. Cofer turned into the road that leads out past Mr. A. A. Smith’s house they met a white man, who was "a stranger, coming from out in the pines, and stopped the car and began talking to him.' While so tailring witness saw the defendant coming up the old road that comes up almost parallel -with the public road. While witness was talking to the defendant, the stranger to whom he had been previously talking got away. Witness’s car was…