State v. Hughlett

— Defendants were charged with bootlegging and were found guilty of unlawful possession, by a jury. They have appealed from the judgment of sentence.

During the trial, certain whiskey which had been taken at the time of the arrest was received in evidence, over the objections of the appellants. ; The sheriff, as a witness for the state, had previously.testified that he did .not have any warrant for the arrest of the appellants, nor did he have any search warrant.

It is necessary to recite some of the facts. For sometime before the arrest, as hereinafter stated, the sheriff and his deputies had…