Case ID: nc_194/html/0582-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ClakksoN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE v. JOE BRISCOE.
    (Filed 23 November, 1927.)
    Intoxicating liquor — Spirituous liquor — Unlawful Possession — Evidence —Instructions.
    Evidence in this case tended to show, and per contra, that defendant had in his possession three bottles of whiskey in his pocket, one hundred yards from his dwelling: Sold, under an indictment for unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor, an instruction to convict if the jury found beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant had intoxicating liquor in his possession, outside of his dwelling, is held, correct, without the additional words “for an illegal purpose.”
    Appeal by defendant from Midyeite, J., and a jury at August Term, 1927, of Gates.
    No error.
    
      Attorney-General Brum-mitt and Assistant Attorney-General Nash for the Slate.
    
    
      Bridger & Bley for defendant.
    
   ClakksoN, J.

J. D. Baines, deputy sheriff of Gates' County, testified in part: “The defendant bad three bottles of whiskey, one in his hand and two in his pockets. I know whiskey when I smell it.” The defendant at the time was about one hundred yards from his dwelling-house. Testimony to like effect was given by O. W. Hinton, also a deputy sheriff. Defendant testified that he had no whiskey, but what he had was vinegar. One of the counts in the bill of indictment was that defendant did unlawfully “possess intoxicating liquors.” For this he was convicted.

The defendant in his brief contends: “The court erred in charging as follows: Tt is unlawful for one to have intoxicating liquors in his possession outside of his dwelling-house in any quantity/ instead of charging as follows: 'It is unlawful for one to have intoxicating liquors in his possession outside of his dwelling-house in any quantity for an illegal purpose.’ ”

The charge as given is now well settled law in this jurisdiction. S. v. Sigmon, 190 N. C., 684; S. v. Pierce, 192 N. C., 766; S. v. Hege, ante, 526.

The charge of the court below is full, fair, and accurate, and gave defendant every right that he was entitled to under the' law. ¥e can find

No error.