Whitaker v. Commonwealth

Bill Whitaker obtained a writ of error to a judgment of conviction under Code, section 4675(50), whereby he was sentenced to serve six months in jail and pay a fine of $250.

On March 18, 1937, police officers of Tazewell county, together with officers of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, investigated his premises under a search warrant and found twelve cases of whiskey stored in a Terra-plane coupe. Ten cases were in the rear compartment, and two cases, from which fourteen or fifteen pints had been removed, were found behind the front seat. The whiskey bore *624both federal and…