Thompson v. City of Lynchburg

W. L. Thompson obtained this writ of error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg, sentencing him to confinement in jail for a term of four months and to the payment of a fine of $100.00.

On the 15th day of February, 1930, the accused was tried and convicted on a municipal warrant charging that he did “unlawfully have in his possession twenty-five gallons of ardent spirits.” His punishment was fixed at a fine of $50.00 and four months confinement in the city jail. Upon appeal to the corporation court, defendant was tried by a jury, which, upon the conclusion of the…