Lee v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant was charged by indictment with transporting illegal liquors in quantities of five gallons or more, an offense denounced by Section 187, Title 29, Code of Alabama 1940.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty and the court imposed a sentence of imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

The evidence presented by the State tends to show that the Sheriff of Hale County and two or more of his deputies were parked near a highway apparently on the lookout for a Mercury automobile.

When such a car passed them they followed, and according to the officers the…