State v. McCowan

Defendant McCowan and Ross McClain were jointly charged by information in the Circuit Court of Pettis County with unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor. The case was dismissed as to McClain. Upon trial to a jury McCowan was found guilty and his punishment was assessed at four months' imprisonment in jail and a fine of $600. From sentence and judgment upon the verdict he appealed. The presence in the record of certain constitutional questions gives this court jurisdiction of the appeal.

The State's evidence tended to show that on the night of October 14, 1931, the date charged in the…