Brooks v. State

The judge, sitting without a jury, found the defendant guilty of possessing whisky in violation of the revenue tax act. To the overruling of her motion for new trial she excepted.

One of the arresting officers testified: “The defendant was in the house standing in the kitchen door between the bedroom and the kitchen. On searching the house, we found two one-gallon cans of tax-unpaid whisky in the ice box. There was also a half-gallon water jug in the ice box with whisky in it. This was a green, regular, water jug for ice boxes. We saw some coca-cola bottles on the kitchen table. When we…