State v. Williams

This is an appeal from a sentence for possessing intoxicating liquors for sale for use as a beverage.

After the evidence had been adduced, defendant’s counsel requested the following charge:

“That where liquor is found in the garden of the defendant thirty yards from his house, and just outside of the garden under some .weeds, and the defendant not being at home, and there being a family of eleven, including two grown sons, and the evidence of the prosecuting witnesses that they had no knowledge that the liquor was that of defendant or in his possession, that such showing is not sufficient to…