Roach v. State

CATES, Judge.

Roach appeals from a judgment of conviction in the Jackson County Court of Law on a misdemeanor charge of selling prohibited liquors (Code 1940, T. 29, § 98). He was found guilty and fined $50 by a jury to which the court added six months’ hard labor for the county.

The State’s case was made out by the testimony of Roy Graves, a criminal investigator of the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Graves first saw Roach on February 28, 1956, at Roach’s home at Hollywood, Alabama. It was about six o’clock in the evening. After Graves drove up, Roach came out on the front porch. Graves could…