Sykes v. State

The appellant, Jim Sykes, was convicted in the circuit court of Lowndes county of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars, and to thirty days’ imprisonment; from that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The proof of the corpus delicti was acquired by means of the search of a trunk found in the property room of the Gilmer Hotel in Columbus.

The appellant assigns and argues the following grounds for the reversal of the judgment: That the affidavit for the search warrant, and the search warrant issued there on, were illegal; that the…