State v. Privitt

The defendant appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Ripley County following a verdict of a jury finding him guilty of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor. His punishment was assessed at a fine of two hundred dollars. The appeal was granted to the Springfield Court of Appeals, and that court transferred the cause to the Supreme Court upon the ground that a constitutional question is involved.

On November 26, 1929, Lee Dodd and J.C. Merrell, deputy sheriffs of Ripley County, armed with a search warrant which had been issued by J.P. Campbell, a justice of the peace of Doniphan…