Dixon v. Commonwealth

On October 24, 1932, W. F. Lawson, sheriff of York county, and J. H. Charles, a prohibition officer, who were in a car driven by Charles, chanced to be upon one of the public roads of Warwick county. Two cars passed them, one a Ford roadster driven by Cliff Turner, followed immediately by a Packard touring car driven by the defendant. It was in the daytime and the officers recognized Dixon. His reputation as an habitual violator of the prohibition law was bad, and so they followed him. These two cars ahead were driven for a short distance down the State highway and from it into an ordinary…