Mayes v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of transporting prohibited liquor in quantities of five gallons or more in violation of Tit. 29, § 187, Code of Alabama, 1940, recompiled 1958. Appellant’s punishment was fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

On the night of March 9, 1969, the appellant was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Billy Chamness of Lawrence County for driving while intoxicated. In his own automobile he was brought to the county jail where he was locked up and his automobile left in the jail yard. The officer and another deputy who was with him that night appeared before a justice of…