State v. Bourgeois

I. The appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction. ^ The evidence shows that the house occupied by the appellant in Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa, was searched, and the officer therein seized thirteen barrels of wine, five kegs containing wine, one gallon jug containing wine, and one gallon jug containing “hooch,” together with three empty kegs and some empty bottles and jugs. The appellant testified:

“There was 7 50-gallon barrels, and there was 4 30-gallon barrels, and there was 6 16-gallon kegs, all practically full of wine, that I still had left from the…