Jones v. State

The defendant was tried and convicted in the city court of Athens of possessing more than one quart of taxpaid whisky in Clarke County, which was a “dry” county. He introduced no evidence and made no statement to the jury. The undisputed evidence for the State was as follows: Two officers of the revenue department of the State, on June 21, 1945, went to the restaurant of the defendant in the City of Athens and found in a drawer of a table in the kitchen five pint bottles. The bottles were all alike and all had unbroken seals, and each bottle had on it á label marked “Moonbeam Whisky,” and the…