State v. Counts

Lively, Judge :

Defendant was arrested on a warrant issued by a justice of the peace, tried, convicted and sentenced to confinement in jail for-six months and to pay a fine of $300.00. He appealed to the circuit court, where a verdict of guilty as charged was found, followed by a sentence of confinement for two months and payment of a fine of $100.00. From this sentence this writ of error is prosecuted.

The evidence discloses that Constable Lanham, armed with the warrant, accompanied by Cosby and Crowder, prohibition officers, went to the home of defendant on the morning of June 21, 1921, all…