State v. Stone

HatcheR, Judge :

Upon an indictment charging the keeping and storing of wine for sale, the defendant was found guilty, and was fined $100.00 and sentenced to ninety days in jail by the circuit court of Preston County.

The evidence for the State is that armed with a search warrant (the validity of which is not questioned) Prohibition Officer D. W. Brown, Constable E. T. LaRue and posse found in and around the house of the defendant several bottles and jugs that had contained wine and a twenty-gallon and a ten gallon jar, both practically full of berry juice that was “sour and working.’7 In a…