State v. Powell

Appellant was convicted and sentenced in the lower court of the crime of bootlegging, a previous conviction of a violation of the prohibition law being at the same time alleged of a conviction of a misdemeanor in the same court.

Although there is some conflict in the evidence, appellant having made a somewhat plausible explanation of his connection with the transaction, he was disbelieved, and the jury accepted the evidence on behalf of the state. That evidence, briefly stated, tended to show that, on the night of April 4,1930, two prohibition agents became acquainted with two men named…