Mask v. State

(Hn 1) In this case the sheriff of Pontotoc County and one of his deputies went to the farm home of the appellant, Abb Mask, armed with a warrant for the search of his premises for intoxicating liquors. At a distance they saw the accused enter a roadside ditch on a county road which ran through his farm and saw him pick up a glass jug and then put it back down in the ditch later. The sheriff and his deputy, according to their testimony, took possession of and examined the contents of the glass jug, and found the same to contain corn liquor. The officers then went over the farm pursuant to the…