Mitchell v. State

By verdict of a jury the plaintiff in error, here referred to as the defendant, was found guilty of the illegal possession of whisky, with his punishment fixed at a fine of $300 and confinement in the county jail for a period of 60 days.

The testimony on the part of the state shows that the defendant was the owner of a place designated as a drug store, in the town of Three Sands, and that he and a woman, said to he his wife, operated this store both before and after the seizure of the whisky upon the possession of which this prosecution was based.

The defendant admitted that he was not a…