Murphy v. State

The defendants were charged with a violation of the prohibition law. There is evidence which would authorize the verdict of guilty returned by the jury. The circumstances in proof would authorize the conclusion that the room in which one of the witnesses stated he had purchased intoxicating liquor was frequently used by the defendants as a place for such illegal sale. The witness Emmett Butts, however, is the only person who testified about purchasing intoxicating liquor; and without his evidence the acquittal of the defendants would, so far as appears from the record, have resulted as a…