Robertson v. State

MR. Special Justice Paul Campbell

delivered the opinion of the Court. *

In this case plaintiffs in error, hereinafter referred to as defendants, were jointly convicted for unlawfully transporting within, into and through the State of Tennessee more than three gallons of alcoholic beverages, without posting a bond with the Commissioner of Finance and Taxation of the State of Tennessee, and their punishment was fixed at a fine of $200' each and confinement in the workhouse for a period of 90' days. From this conviction the defendants have appealed and assigned errors, four in number.

The only…