Coker v. State

Having been convicted of possessing whisky, Clarence Coker filed his motion for a new trial based solely upon the usual general grounds. W. L. David, a policeman, testified: that on the date set out in the accusation he and Ed McGee and J. L. Eortson, two county policemen, searched the defendant’s house and found therein 75 or 80 one-gallon tin cans and some fruit-jars; that they went down the road and found the defendant and Thomas Bonner picking cotton in a field; that they went towards Bonner and he ran away carrying with him a cotton-sack “that looked like it had something in it;” that…