Salter v. State
Decision Date | 08 June 1920 |
Docket Number | 3 Div. 373 |
Citation | 85 So. 847,17 Ala.App. 517 |
Parties | SALTER v. STATE. |
Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
Rehearing Denied June 22, 1920
Appeal from Circuit Court Montgomery County; Leon McCord, Judge.
C.D Salter was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals. Affirmed as to the conviction, but reversed and remanded for proper sentence.
Mark D Brainard, of Montgomery, for appellant.
J.Q Smith, Atty. Gen., for the State.
The defendant was indicted and convicted of violating the prohibition law, and from the judgment he appeals.
It having been shown that the defendant had in his possession beer, from which whisky is usually made, besides bottles and jugs that had recently contained whisky, it was perfectly competent to prove that the defendant's father, who lived about 150 feet from defendant had a still and 20 or 25 gallons of the same kind of beer as was found in defendant's house, and that there was a "big path" leading from the defendant's to the father's house, as tending to connect the defendant with the manufacture of prohibited liquors. That the father, too was guilty, in no wise tended to excuse the defendant. The rulings of the court on the evidence were in line with the foregoing and were without error.
If therefore, section 7620 of the Code must be read into and become a part of those sections where the term of imprisonment...
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...Code 1923? "In this connection we call your attention to the following decisions of this Court on the question involved. Salter v. State, 17 Ala. App. 517, 85 So. 847; Abrahams v. State, 18 Ala. App. 252, 89 So. Farley v. State, 20 Ala. App. 105, 101 So. 69; Conner v. State, 20 Ala. App. 61......
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