Copeland v. State

Pursuant to a valid warrant for the search of a tourist court for intoxicating liquors, the sheriff called the defendant, H. E. Copeland, out of one of the cabins, which was “down at his bootleg joint” and where he was visiting with one of his guests there. The officer testified that as the defendant came out of the cabin, in a drunken condition, his coat blew back or was thrown back in some way, and that thereupon he saw a bottle in his inside coat pocket, and smelled whiskey on him. The whiskey in the bottle did not extend all the way to the top, that is to say, the bottle lacked two and…