State v. Hanger

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction for unlawfully having intoxicating liquor in his possession in violation of section 1 of chapter 215 of the Laws of 1917, the “bone-dry law.”

1. The first contention of the defendant is that the evidence was not sufficient to prove that he had intoxicating liquor in his possession. The evidence on that question may be summarized as follows. The sheriff testified that he found four quarts of whisky under the cushion in the back seat of the *116defendant’s automobile at his father’s home; and…