Case ID: miss_227/html/0516-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Holmes, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Holifield v. State
    No. 39972
    April 2, 1956
    86 So. 2d 315
    
      
      Wingo & Finch, Hattiesburg, for appellant.
    
      John H. Price, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
   Holmes, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Forrest County adjudging the appellant to be guilty of contempt of court on a charge that he violated an injunction theretofore issued by the court enjoining him, his partners, servants, agents, employees, assigns, grantees, lessees, associates, and all other persons in privity with him, from unlawfully possessing, storing, keeping, selling, or giving away intoxicating liquors on premises known as Hilltop Service Station, and enjoining him from operating or using said premises as a place where intoxicating liquors are kept, possessed, sold, or given away in violation of the laws of the State. He was fined $1500 and sentenced to imprisonment for six months. He offered no proof in his own behalf. His sole contention is that the State’s proof is insufficient to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

It will serve no good purpose to relate the evidence in detail. It is sufficient to say that the proof, in our opinion, amply supports the learned chancellor’s finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The decree of the court below is therefore affirmed.

Affirmed.

Roberds, P.J., and Hall, Lee, and Ethridge, JJ., concur.