Taylor v. State

The appellant, Chester Taylor, was tried and convicted in the circuit court of Perry county, on a charge of having liquor in his possession, and was sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and to serve a jail sentence of thirty days, and from this judgment he prosecuted this appeal.

The testimony upon which this conviction was based was secured by means of a search of appellant’s home under a search warrant issued by a justice of the peace on January 12, 1924, and returnable the same day. The search was made four days after the return day of the *220warrant, under the authority of which…