State v. Shumpert

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fishburne.

The defendant was convicted upon an indictment which charged him with willfully and unlawfully having in his possession in his place of business, other than a licensed liquor store, alcoholic liquors.

Appellant assigns error because the lower Court overruled his motion for a directed verdict, which was made upon the ground that there was no testimony from which the jury could find the defendant guilty of having alcoholic liquors in his possession in his “place of business.”

The indictment was drawn under the provisions of Act 199,…