Caneperi v. State

In the principal case complainant and George Collins were tried under an indictment charging transportation of intoxicating liquors. The proof showed that they were arrested driving a truck loaded with whisky, some 132 cases, into Memphis about 2 A. M., as they had turned off toward the home of Caneperi. The defense was that they were conveying the liquor interstate, from Fulton, Ky., to Shreveport, La. They were acquitted by the jury.

Upon the arrest the whisky was taken over by the sheriff and five days before the trial a petition was filed by C. & G. Liquor Company of Fulton, praying for…