State v. Wyatt

Appellant was tried for violating the provisions of § 10278, Code 1919. The evidence shows that appellant was keeping a pool hall; that on the 31st day of July, 1921, officers of the law went to- his place of business and made a search for intoxicating liquor; that concealed in a room to the rear of the pool room they found a bottle of intoxicating liquor.

At the trial appellant offered to show that he did not place the liquor where it was found and that he had no' knowledge that *577it' was there'. He offered to show further that he had been absent ¡from the state for three days next prior to the…