Stroud v. State

The plaintiff in error, O. P. Strond, has appealed from a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County upon a conviction for unlawfully transporting more than one gallon of whisky, his punishment having been fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and one day nor more than two years.

On the night of September 28, 1928, the sheriff of Lauderdale County, being in possession of a search warrant directing him to search the person of the plaintiff in error and the automobile in which he was riding, took a position on a county road to await the…