Booker v. City of Birmingham

This prosecution originated in the recorder’s -court, from a judgment of conviction in which defendant appealed to the circuit court. On trial in the circuit court before the court without a jury, defendant was again convicted of the offense of possessing prohibited liquor in violation of a city ordinance.

The undisputed evidence showed that, when defendant was arrested at her home, the officers found 72 bottles of “home brew,” and one witness testified that “home brew” is beer. If anything were lacking in the way of definiteness as to the character of the liquid which was the basis of…