Legal Opinion
Yeager v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided December 7, 1967No. 1 Div. 489PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRILL, Justice.
The defendant, James W. Yeager, was convicted of transporting prohibited liquors in quantities of five gallons or more, under Tit. 29, § 187, Code 1940, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. The Court of Appeals reversed and we granted certiorari.
The Court of Appeals held that evidence was sufficient to show that whiskey was in gallon jugs in the automobile in sufficient quantity to violate the statute, and that it was being transported, but that this evidence should have been suppressed on the ground that it “was seized through an illegal search and seizure.”
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2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Norton Edward Richardson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Nolan E. Patenotte v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Kelley v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1958
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3Cited by20 opinions
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