State v. . Ross

The defendant was tried in the city court and convicted under Laws 1913, ch. 81, sec. 2, which makes the possession of cocaine prima facie evidence of a violation of the statute.

On appeal to the Superior Court, the witness R. L. Blackburn, a policeman, testified that under a search and seizure warrant he entered the house in possession of John Ross and found 225 packages of cocaine up in a little scuttle-hole over the kitchen door, and a gallon and a half of liquor. The scuttle-hole was sawed just big enough to get a gallon jug in. One jug was in the scuttle. There was a picture just big…