Sturgis v. Commonwealth

This case is before us on a writ of error to a judgment entered upon a jury’s verdict convicting Purnell Sturgis of the transportation of illegally acquired alcoholic beverages in violation of Code, § 4-75, 1 and fixing his punishment at sixty days in jail. The assignments of error challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and the court’s rulings on the admission of certain evidence.

On the night of June 27, 1954, Wayne J. Fincen, a member of the Virginia State Police, and Arthur B. Nicolls, a deputy sheriff, were patrolling the road leading from Painter to Mappsburg, in…