Grimes v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant has been convicted of possessing prohibited alcoholic beverages.

The alleged possession occurred in Coffee County, a “dry” county in this State.

The evidence presented by the State tends to show that Mr. Bob Norris, an enforcement officer for the Alabama Beverage Control Board and Mr. Gunter and Mr. Latiker, deputy sheriffs of Coffee County, under the authority of a search warrant, searched the appellant’s house on the afternoon of 9 January 1954.

The appellant was not present at the time the search was made, but appellant’s wife and a Mrs. Jordan, who worked and…