Legal Opinion

Garland v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 13, 1933No. 30300PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor and fined in the sum of one hundred dollars. PTom that judgment she prosecutes this appeal.

Two deputy sheriffs of Hinds county and a police officer of the city of Jackson, with a proper search warrant, .entered the home occupied by appellant and her husband. They testified that on their arrival they found! appellant breaking a jug containing whisky.

Appellant as a witness in her own hehalf admitted the truth of the testimony of the officers. Her defense was that she did not unlawfully possess the whisky; that…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Brazeale v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1923
  2. Harness v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1922
  3. Wylie v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1929

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. People v. MijaresCalifornia Supreme Court · 1971
  2. People v. MartinCalifornia Supreme Court · 2001
  3. Millette v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1933
  4. Williamson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1941
  5. People v. ColeCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1988

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