Williams v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Jtlstice.

Appellants, Morris Williams and Elvin Terry, fiave moved for an appeal from a judgment under which each was fined $100 and sentenced to confinement in jail for a period of 60 days under a charge of unlawfully possessing alcoholic liquor for the purpose of sale in local optipn territory.

Morris Williams owns and operates the Ewen Hotel in the city of Jackson. The hotel building is two stories high and contains about 26 rooms which are rented to tenants only by the week, month, or for longer periods. Williams, with his family, occupies an apartment in the hotel. Terry has…