Roper v. State

The defendant was convicted of possessing whisky which did not bear the tax stamps required by law. The evidence disclosed that the officers went to a tobacco farm which was in the defendant’s possession as tenant. They found the defendant sitting in his automobile. In the back of his car was an empty keg with a sheet spread over it. The keg had the smell of whisky in it. About seventy-five yards from the defendant’s residence, near a tobacco house, the officers found in the weeds a quart bottle about half full of unstamped whisky. There were tracks leading from defendant’s residence to the…