Thompson v. State

C. A. Thompson was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquor. His exception is to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial based upon the general and certain special grounds.

The gist of the testimony of witness Raley was that at a time when the defendant was not at home he found there the defendant’s wife, his small child, and one Wesley Jones; that Jones was sitting on the porch, but that when witness approached he stepped in the house and locked the screen door behind him; that witness jerked the door open and entered the house in time to see Jones pour whisky out of a pitcher…