Goode v. State

Jim Goode was convicted in the circuit court of Lawrence county of the offense of having* intoxicating liquors in his possession, and was sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and serve ninety days in jail, from which conviction he appeals here.

It appears from the evidence that the sheriff of the county, having some information to the effect that the defendant whs selling intoxicating liquors, took one of his deputies and went at night near the house of the defendant and stationed himself and the deputy on the edge of the public road near said house, and, while they were thus…