Adkins v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

Complaining of his conviction of -unlawfully having intoxicating liquors in possession, appellant urges that the evidence of his guilt was unlawfully obtained, and therefore incompetent.

Appellant was accosted by a policeman of Hopkins-ville, as he drove into the corporate limits; he stopped, and the officer approached his automobile. The latter testified that while talking to appellant, he saw the neck of a bottle protruding out of a sack in the bottom of the machine; that he could not see what the bottle contained; that he directed another…