Parker v. State

CATES, Judge.

Parker, on August 12, 1957, was accused of illegally possessing prohibited liquors (Code 1940, T. 29, § 98).

His trial to a jury in the Morgan County Court resulted in a verdict of guilty, with a fine being therein fixed at $250, to which the court, upon adjudication of guilt in conformity with the verdict, added as additional punishment a six months’ term of hard labor. On March 24, 1958, the trial judge overruled a motion for new trial. Hence this appeal.

Parker lived in the northeast part of Morgan County a short distance off the Lower River Road which runs northeasterly toward…