Troutner v. Commonwealth

B. F. Troutner, the accused, was convicted of having in his possession, for sale, more than one gallon of ardent spirits, and sentenced to one month’s confinement in jail and to pay a fine of $50.00. He assigns error.

In May, 1921, officers searched the rented house in which the accused and his family lived and found two one-pint bottles of corn liquor, which it is admitted belonged to the accused. Outside of the house, ten or twenty feet from the northwest corner thereof, they found two one-gallon bottles of corn liquor, buried in the ground. The accused had been living in the house only…