Patton v. State

Walter Patton was convicted in the county court of Forrest county, on a charge'of unlawfully having in his possession intoxicating liquors and appealed to the circuit court, where the judgment of the county court was affirmed; and from the judgment of the circuit court, he prosecuted this appeal.

The state offered the testimony of a deputy sheriff to the effect that he was informed that during a certain night a. load of whisky would be brought to a point at or near a certain church; that he took his informant in his car and proceeded to the designated place, and, after lying in wait for a…