State v. Hill

There is no statutory limit upon the quantity of legally acquired liquor, upon which the taxes imposed by law have been paid, a person may lawfully have or keep in his private dwelling, while the same is occupied and used by him as his dwelling only, for the “family use” purposes prescribed in G.S. 18-11. S. v. Barnhardt, 230 N.C. 223, 52 S.E. 2d 904; S. v. Brady, ante, 295.

Yet in a prosecution for the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, proof of the possession by the accused of more than one gallon of bonded or tax-paid liquor, even within his private…