Grimes v. State

BRICKEN, P. X

This appellant was charged by indictment with the offense of violating the Prohibition Law (Code 1923, § 4015 et seq., as amended), and upon the trial the state’s evidence tended to show that the searching officers found a small quantity of rum in a jug in defendant’s home. The defendant and his several witnesses testified that the jug in question had been used to contain vinegar and that the contents in the jug when found by the officers was water placed in there by the small daughter of the defendant. Rum is a prohibited liquor; this is judicially known; and if the jug in…