Tewmy v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The question presented on this appeal is whether a married woman may he convicted of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor from the mere fact of whiskey being found, upon a search made for the purpose, in a chicken coop located about twenty feet in the rear of the dwelling wherein she and her husband resided and which-dwelling and premises were contracted for by the husband and he paid the rent. 'So far as the legal question is concerned, it is the same as if- the husband owned the premises, in which case the question would be, whether the wife…