Bragg v. State

This is an appeal by the plaintiff in error, Jim Bragg, from a judgment rendered by the criminal court of Shelby County upon a conviction for unlawfully receiving, possessing and transporting intoxicating liquor.

Acting under the authority of a search warrant policemen of the city of Memphis searched the premises occupied by the plaintiff in error as a dwelling and found therein a quantity of whisky. The evidence is that half pint bottles of whisky were found in a kitchen cabinet in the kitchen of the house, and that a glass jug, containing about one-half gallon of whisky, was found under the…