Eldridge v. State

The cause was tried by the court without a jury, and the judgment is assigned as error.- 'The evidence tends to show that a five-gallon jug of whisky was found on defendant’s place, out in the field about two hundred yards from his house in a pile of cotton-seed hulls. The pile of cotton-seed hulls was .near the road. The ground was covered with snow, and there were some human tracks leading from defendant’s house to the pile of cotton-seed hulls and back to the house. The defendant was not at home when the officers found the whisky and had not been there that day. No evidence tending to…