Posey v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of the offense of having in possession prohibited liquor and has appealed to this court. The liquor consisted of about thirty-three gallons of “white,-wild-cat whiskey” in kegs found by the officers in the smokehouse on the premises, occupied by the defendant and others, and a gallon jug, half full of similar whiskey in a room of the dwelling house where defendant resided. The State’s evidence tended to show that, when the officers appeared on the scene, the defendant ran into the house, latched the front screen door, picked up this gallon jug half…