Hayes v. State

The State submitted this case on one count of an indictment which charged that defendant “unlawfully did then and there possess certain intoxicating liquors received by him in the State and county aforesaid after February 2, 1917, directly or indirectly from some common or other carrier.”

Evidence was introduced, and the defendant found guilty and assessed with a fine of $100. Defendant appealed in error to this court.

There appears to have been a stipulation of facts, which was all the evidence in the- case, and was as follows:

“That defendant, W. T. Hayes, had in his residence in Nashville,…