State v. Twiggs

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Hydrick.

Appellant was convicted of having in his possession and transporting contraband liquor. When arrested he had in his possession a suitcase, which had 18 pints of whiskey in it.

He testified that neither the suitcase nor the liquor belonged to him, and that he did not know the suitcase had liquor in it until it was opened by the officer who arrested him. He sought to explain his possession of it by saying that he had merely taken it off the train at Baldoc at the request of Alec Badger, a fellow passenger; that Badger got off when the…