Black v. State

Bart Black was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquors. He assigns error on the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The evidence shows that the officers found a small quantity of liquor in the defendant’s house, thirteen gallons hidden in the woods about 300 yards from his house, that the woods were on land rented by the defendant, that the defendant ran when the officers approached his house, and that his coat and cap were carried to him at a neighbor’s house.

The 1st special ground of the motion for a new trial alleges, in substance, that the court erred in failing to charge that…