Thompson v. State

Thompson was indicted, tried and convicted for possessing intoxicating liquors, with punishment fixed at a fine of $500 and a jail sentence of six months.

In September, 1950, a number of Sullivan County officers, armed with a search warrant, searched a building, and found in one of the apartments of this building a quantity of whiskey. When the officers first arrived the son of the plaintiff in error was in a storeroom which is entered by way of Door No. 1. A part of a pint of whiskey was found behind Door No. 2, which is the entrance to a stairway leading to the upper portion of the building.…