Craft v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

In the early hours of April 9, 1922, and while it was yet dark, officers searched the residence of the appellant, Marion Craft, and found two jugs containing whiskey under the bed in a room occupied by him, and in a room occupied by his unmarried son, Martin Craft, several fruit jars containing whiskey were found in a press. Upon this evidence they were separately indicted and convicted of unlawfully having intoxicating liquors in their possession. Upon their separate appeals, as they did upon their trials, they challenge the competency of this…