Cope v. State

Officers searching defendant’s house and premises surrounding found two one-gallon jugs of whisky under the floor of an old unused toilet located about ten steps from the back porch of. the house in which defendant lived, The defendant was not present when the whisky was found, and disclaimed all knowledge of its being there. The toilet had formerly been used by the occupants of the house, but had been condemned by the health officers, and some three weeks prior to the search, the landlord, from whom defendant rented the premises, built another toilet conforming to sanitary requirements for…