Wright v. State

Appellant was prosecuted upon an affidavit in two counts: (1) possession, (2) transportation of intoxicating liquor under Acts 1925 ch. 48, §4, (§2717 Burns 1926). He was tried by a jury, found guilty and sentenced on the first count, receiving a fine of $100 and sixty days imprisonment. The error relied upon by appellant is the overruling of his motion for a new trial, the several reasons for which are hereinafter discussed.

Appellant was convicted on the evidence of a plainclothes detective in the Muncie police department, (who was the only witness in the case except two other police…