State v. Brown

Lively, Judge:

The defendant, Gilbert Brown, prosecutes this writ from a judgment to serve seventy days in jail and to pay a fine of $150.00, upon his conviction on a charge of possessing moonshine liquor.

About four o’clock in the afternoon of August 9, 1927, state police searched a four-story building on' Richwood Avenue in Morgantown, and found on the second floor 75 gallons of moonshine liquor in and on the. floor beside an old unused automobile.

The only means of access to the building was by individual ramps leading to each floor from the outside. There was also an open inside stairway…