Schroeder v. State
Decision Date | 25 November 1919 |
Docket Number | 1 Div. 340 |
Citation | 84 So. 309,17 Ala.App. 246 |
Parties | SCHROEDER v. STATE. |
Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Mobile County; C.A. Grayson, Judge.
William Schroeder was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals. Reversed and remanded.
Most of the facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. The court charged the jury on its own motion as follows:
Inge & Kilborn, of Mobile, for appellant.
J.Q Smith, Atty. Gen., and Horace Wilkinson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
It was shown by the testimony of the state's witnesses that two city detectives standing near defendant's place of business saw a negro go in the store of defendant and come out with a package in his hand, which he gave to another negro; that the detectives grabbed both negroes, and found the package to be one-half pint of Paul Jones whisky, in a three-pound paper bag. The detectives both testified that they knew the place to be defendant's store, and that at the time the negro was in the store they saw defendant in there. Neither of the witnesses for the state testified to seeing defendant with any whisky or seeing him deliver the package to the negro. But in about ten minutes after the whisky had been found on the negroes the detectives went into the store of defendant. At this...
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