Smith v. State

The defendant owned one lot-of whisky in pint bottles, which was in his garage in Lowndes county, and another lot of whisky in pint bottles, which was at his home in Dallas county. Each lot of whisky was entirely distinct and separate from the other. Each of the places at which the whisky was found is more than one-fourth of a mile from the county line. The defendant owned all of the whisky at the same time. The defendant was duly tried and convicted on a charge of unlawfully possessing Whisky by the court in Lowndes county, and on his trial in this case he pleaded that conviction as a bar to…