State v. Janes

By an information filed in the Circuit Court of Pemiscot County, appellant was charged with the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquors in a mortgaged automobile without the written consent of the legal owner of the mortgage. At the trial the jury found him guilty and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of four years. He was sentenced accordingly and appealed.

The evidence offered by the State showed that at the time in question Scott Carey lived in the loop of the old and new levees, about 150 yards west of the Mississippi River and about one mile…