Williams v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charged the defendant with the offense of violating the prohibition laws of this State, Code 1940, Tit. 29, § 92 et seq. It contained three counts, all of the same import, with the usual stereotyped alternative averments. Upon the trial, however, the State sought a conviction solely upon testimony of its two witnesses which tended to show possession, in that, during his (defendant’s) absence from his home, the said witnesses found in the garage, near defendant’s home, a barrel and another container, in which there was, as described by the witness, some…