Simpson v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The conviction is for possessing an illicit beverage, the punishment assessed being thirty days in jail.

The information — without stating the details — charged that the illicit alcoholic beverage alleged to have been possessed was a malt beer containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol, by volume, to which no tax stamp showing the payment of the tax due the State thereon was affixed.

To support this accusation, the State proved that the sheriff of the county, who possesssed information that a violation of the liquor laws was taking place, went at night, together…