People v. McCourtney

Defendant was arrested without a warrant on February 24, 1922, in a restaurant in the city of Lansing by Police Officer Fenby on the charge of being drunk and disorderly. While being taken to the police station in a patrol wagon, Captain of Police Potter, who was also riding therein, saw fendant pouring a fluid from a bottle in his possession on the floor of the wagon. From the smell he believed it to be moonshine whisky. He “leaned over and grabbed the bottle.” He sopped up some of the fluid from the floor and testified positively, both from taste and' smell, that the liquid was moonshine…