Erskine v. State

About 100 yards from the Mayesvi'lle road on Chapman’s mountain, in Madison county, the arresting officers found this appellant and a negro woman, “in a -little thicket,” on a certain Sun-, day in October, 1924. There was evidence tending to show that this appellant was lying down.with his coat off, and that so-me 2- or 3 feet from him there was a bottle of whisky under his- coat. As á part of the res gestas, all that, was said or done at that particular time and place, relating to the issue, by the persons present, was relevant. The state introduced as a witness one S. B. Wo-rley, who…