State v. Harris

The appeal is from a sentence, February 14, 1924, of two years in the penitentiary upon conviction of defendant for transporting “hootch, moonshine.”

Defendant lived in Moberly, in rooms over a soft-drink parlor known as the Green Tree. On December 2, 1927, McAdam, a police officer, saw a car driven along the alley and stopped near the back door of the Green Tree. A man named Warford came out of the back door of the building, got a jug from the car and put it inside the door of the Green Tree. The officer approached the car, smelled liquor, and saw a five-gallon jug in the car. The defendant…