State v. Littlejohn

Legge, Justice.

Horace Littlejohn was convicted under an indictment charging that on May 1, 1954, he “did willfully and unlawfully have in his possession in his cafe place of business seventeen half-pints and four pints of alcoholic liquors.” His appeal charges error on the part of the trial judge: (1) in refusing to direct a verdict in his favor, and (2) in refusing certain requests to charge.

Appellant, a Negro, owns and operates a cafe and beer parlor and pool room on the -ground floor of a two-story concrete block building in or near the town of Clemson in Pickens County. He also owns and…