Shepherd v. State

Appellants, husband and wife, were convicted and sentenced for maintaining a common nuisance under §24, ch. 48, Acts 1925, §2740 Burns 1926. They have assigned as error the overruling of their several motions for a new trial, in each of which motions more than twenty causes are alleged, but it will not be necessary to consider all of them.

The evidence consisted of a quantity of intoxicating liquor obtained by a search of appellants’ premises under a search warrant, of certain statements made by appellant Ruth Shepherd while quarreling with the officers during the search, and the testimony of…