State v. . O'Neal

As a witness for the State W. E. Nicholson testified that he was a detective employed to discover and report breaches of the prohibition law; that on 18 January, 1923, he went to the defendant’s home to purchase liquor and the defendant said he had none then but had bought and mashed fifty-eight crates of grapes and would notify the witness when he had “made the run”; that soon thereafter he told the witness he had brandy in kegs, and two days later sold him three half-gallon jars of it at the price of thirty dollars. The witness further testified that he had previously bought from the…