Hall v. State

These two plaintiffs in error were tried and convicted of possessing intoxicating liquors and were fined $200 each, with a 60-day jail sentence in each case, the punishment having been fixed by a jury under .the Act so providing. T.C.A. sec. 40-2704.

Neither defendant testified in his own behalf. The proof in behalf of the State consisted of the following: On the night of May 21,1955, the Sheriff of Wilson County, accompanied by his deputy, H. D. Harrison, and a Highway Patrolman, James Dotson, acting under a search warrant went to the home of the defendants to search for intoxicating liquor.…