State v. Potts

I. The indictment is in two counts. In the first count it is alleged that on the fourth day of February, 1888, the defendant was a duly-qualified constable in and for Saylor township, in Polk county, and that, as such officer, he had seized and had in his possession a large amount of intoxicating liquors, the property of one John Connelly; that said liquors were-seized and held by defendant under a search-warrant,, issued by a justice of the peace in pursuance of the provisions of the law prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating-liquors ; and that, while in possession of the same, the…