Jones v. State

The evidence for the State discloses that the defendant was operating a hotel in Atlanta; that Lane was clerk and manager for him; and that Brinkley.was a bell-boy employed at the hotel. The defendant had been convicted, or had pleaded guilty, of having or selling whisky on three previous occasions, and the hotel bore the reputation as a bootlegging place. The officers raided it, and found two rooms which were occupied hy a man named Scott, alias Holland, besides the bed and furniture, two telephones, which were shown to have been contracted for by Scott and which he had contracted for under…