Lewis v. State

The defendant was charged with possessing and transporting “certain spirituous, vinous, malted, and fermented liquors.” The jury found him guilty, and he excepted to the overruling of his motion for new trial, which contains only the usual general grounds. It appears from the evidence that the officers discovered a goodly quantity of bonded whisky in bottles, hidden a short distance from the main highway and near a small country road, in bushes and straw. They waited concealed near this spot for some time until the defendant drove up in his ear with a companion, whom the officers were not…