Case ID: ala-app_22/html/0335-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "RICE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(115 So. 695)
    PRITCHETT v. STATE.
    (3 Div. 576.)
    Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    Jan. 10, 1928.
    Rehearing Denied March 6, 1928.
    E. T. Graham, of Montgomery, for appellant.
    Charlie C. McCall, Atty. Gen., for the State.
   RICE, J.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of unlawfully being in possession of Xjrohibited liquors. The state proved, after prox>er predicate laid, what appellant’s counsel call a “half-hammered confession.” The appellant, on the trial, did not deny the confession, but explained it, so that, we apprehend, his counsel now describe it as “half-hammered,” by saying that, at the time he made the statement impliedly admitting his ownership of the whisky, testified to by the officer, he was “joking.” Eor his satisfaction we will say that, immediately upon discovery of 2 quarts of Old Dominion rye whisky, 27 pints of corn liquor, and 15 half pints, in a room with one situated as he was, and in a room the jury was authorized to find was occupied by him as his own, is a poor time to “joke,” especially if'the “joke” is to the effect that he owned the liquor.' There was ample evidence to support the verdict returned.

We find no error, and the judgment is affirmed.