Parker v. State

1. The defendant was convicted of possessing more than one quart of liquor in a dry county on December 7, 1940. The evidence disclosed that the arresting officer who raided the defendant’s home found six pints of Seagram’s whisky under a bed. The defendant contends that he and two other persons lived in the house together, that only one quart of whisky was his, and that each of the other persons owned one of the other quarts. He introduced evidence that he and his two friends went to a liquor store and each purchased two pints of whisky and brought them home. However, on cross-examination it…