State v. Hines

Litz, Judge:

The defendant, George 'W. Hines, a justice of the peace, prosecutes error to the judgment of the circuit court upon a verdict of conviction against him, imposing a sentence of ninety days in jail and $100.00 fine for alleged violation of the prohibition law.

Acting nuclei’ a search warrant, issued by M. C. Bower-master, a justice of tlie peace of Iiingwood District, Preston county, E. T. Larue, constable, and John E. Copeman, sheriff, searched the premises of the defendant in his absence and there found buried in a garden near a mill house which he occupied and used as an office…