Burns v. State

POWELL, Judge.

The plaintiff in error, L. B. Burns, was convicted in the county court of McCurtain County of the charge of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor. The jury assessed a penalty of a fine of $50, and thirty days confinement in the county jail.

The question as to whether or not the trial court correctly overruled the motion to suppress is the only issue presented.

Prior to trial defendant interposed a motion to suppress the evidence with reference to the discovery of four one-half pints and one full pint of tax-paid whiskey found by an officer in a secret compartment in a table…