Chancellor v. State

RICE, Judge.: Five or six officers of the law searched appellant’s premises. One of same found a point bottle of rum — described by one of the officers as “punkin (sic) rum.”

The finding of the sum was described by the Sheriff (who found it) as follows: “I found it at the back porch; I stepped from the well east; it was covered up; the well is three or four steps from his back porch ; I don’t know how far this liquor was from his back porch when I found it; coming right off the back porch right due south three or four steps of the well and then the whiskey, I found that about one good step of…