Hill v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was apprehended on a main highway in DeKalb county, Ala., driving an automobile containing about 100 gallons of whisky in sealed bottles and jugs, most of which were in cases but some loose in the car. It was all bonded whisky.

Appellant admitted" the possession of the whisky, but contended he was en route from Somerset, Ky., to Jacksonville, Fla., with it; and offered some evidence to that effect — it being his contention that the whisky was an interstate shipment, originating in Kentucky, and destined to no point in Alabama.

Upon his trial, and at the conclusion of the…