Lowe v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Forrest county. I-Ion. E. S. Hall, Judge. Lillie B. Lowe was convicted of having intoxicating liquors in lier possession, and she appeals. The action of -the court in permitting the state to show that frequent raids had been made on appellant’s home was wholly irrelevant and incompetent.
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Appeal from circuit court of Forrest county. I-Ion. E. S. Hall, Judge. Lillie B. Lowe was convicted of having intoxicating liquors in lier possession, and she appeals. The action of -the court in permitting the state to show that frequent raids had been made on appellant’s home was wholly irrelevant and incompetent. It in no way tended to establish defendant’s guilt, yet it was calculated to prejudice the defendant greatly before the jury and did no doubt have this effect for it served the purpose of bringing the defendant’s character in issue which may not be done unless the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellant was tried and convicted of having intoxicating liquors in her possession, and sentenced to fine and imprisonment, from which she prosecutes this appeal.
*345The witnesses for the state, who were officers of the law, testified to searching the residence of the appellant and finding one bottle of white grain whisky and two bottles of colored alcohol, which they claimed was colored to disguise its being intoxicating liquor. They searched the house in the absence of the appellant, and found the bottle of white liquor concealed in the trapdoor overhead in one of the rooms, which the…
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- Collins v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1910
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