Mays v. State

1. The defendant was charged with the offense of possessing whisky. Under the facts of the case, the court did not err in allowing the State to introduce evidence connecting the defendant with other whisky transactions on previous occasions. The theory of the prosecution was that the accused was “the man higher up,” and that the principal witness for the State (who had testified that he was employed by the defendant to transport and sell the whisky) was hired by the accused to transport and sell it. Under such circumstances, the evidence connecting the accused with previous illegal whisky…