State v. King

Defendant assigns as error the denial of his motion for judgment of compulsory nonsuit on the count in the warrant charging him with the unlawful possession of one gallon of taxpaid whisky. The State’s evidence presents these facts:

About 3 p.m. on Saturday, 21 November 1964, J. C. Scoggins and A. B. Gross, officers employed by the Burlington-Graham Board of Alcoholic Control, found in a wooded and honeysuckle area of land off of Chase Street in the city of Burlington eight pints of Governor’s Club taxpaid whisky in a paper bag sitting beside a cedar tree in a “honeysuckle thicket in the…