Fitts v. State

The defendant, who was a deputy sheriff, was indicted on a charge of unlawfully transporting prohibited liquors in quantities of five-gallons or -more. The same grand jury indicted Aubrey Payne, another deputy sheriff, and it was claimed by the state that Aubrey Payne purchased from, a man named Wm. Turner thirty gallons of whisky in ten gallon kegs and five gallon cans. The testi mony of three witnesses, examined by the state, was to the effect that: “On Saturday, November 2nd, 1929, I (Wm. Turner) went to the forks of the roads up near Windham Springs in company with A. O. and Louis Swindle…