State v. Austin

The defendants have appealed from a conviction and sentence for the offense of having whisky in their possession for sale. The record contains four bills of exception, one of which, however, was reserved to the overruling of a motion for a new trial, which motion was merely a repetition of the complaints made in the three other bills of exception.

The first bill was reserved to the overruling of an objection to the testimony of the sheriff, who was the state’s principal witness. He testified that, at the time of making the arrest of the defendants, he was on the lookout for them, expecting…