Edmonds v. Commonwealth

The appellant was fined $100 and sentenced to sixty days in jail for transporting alcoholic beverages in dry territory. He was stopped on a public highway at night by four State Troopers for operating his truck with Tennessee license plates. One of the Troopers had known appellant for fifteen years, but there is no direct evidence that the Troopers-knew the identity of appellant until they stopped his truck. Two of the Troopers testified that the appellant said, in effect, “You might as well go ahead and search (the truck) it is in there,” and when they did search it they found 55 cases of…