Baird v. Commonwealth

Motion for an appeal from the judgment of the Whitley Circuit Court convicting appellant of the offense of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquors in local option territory for the purpose of sale and fixing his punishment at a fine of $100 and confinement in jail for thirty days.

The liquor was found in appellant’s car when it was searched under the authority of a search warrant but he argues that as the affidavit upon which it was based did not state the car was in Whitley County, the warrant was illegal, citing 33 C.J., Intoxicating Liquors, § 372, p. 677 and Baker v. Com., 311 Ky. 93,…