Grogan v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Olay

Affirming

John drogan appeals from a judgment convicting him of a second violation of the Prohibition Act (Laws 1922, c. 33) and fixing his punishment at two years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

Briefly stated, the facts are these: R. B. Parker, a deputy policeman, was standing near drogan’s house. He met a man in a car who stopped at drogan’s. drogan came out to the car, and the man went into the house, drogan went out through his yard into an adjoining lot covered with weeds. The man left in a few minutes. Witness then went tq the weeds and…