Case Name: J. Ozur v. Commonwealth
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1922-03-16
Citations: 132 Va. 769
Docket Number: 
Parties: J. Ozur v. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 132
Pages: 769–770

Head Matter:
Richmond.
J. Ozur v. Commonwealth.
March 16, 1922.
Absent, West, J.
Intoxicating Liquors—Storing Liquors—Sufficiency of Evidence.— Accused was found guilty of storing intoxicating liquors for sale. Evidence for the Commonwealth showed that one gallon of whiskey was found in the store of accused, concealed under the counter, with a glass having the odor of whiskey, indicating recent use. Two and one-half gallons more of whiskey were found in a warehouse on the same premises.
Held: That there was sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict of the jury.
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Portsmouth.
Affirmed.
The opinion states the case.
S. M. Brandt and H. A. Sacks, for the plaintiff in error.
John B. Saunders, Attorney General; J. D. Hank, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Leon M. Bazile, Second Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Opinion:
Prentis, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The accused has been found guilty of storing intoxicating liquor for sale.
He assigns as error the refusal of the court to set aside the verdict as based upon insufficient evidence.
It is unnecessary to say more than that the testimony introduced for the Commonwealth shows that one gallon of whiskey wias found in his store, concealed under the counter, with a glass having the odor of whiskey and indicating recent use, either on the counter or under it, and two and one-half gallons more in a warehouse on the same premises, which were controlled by him as a tenant.
It is unnecessary to recite the evidence in detail, but our judgment is that the jury were justified in discrediting his attempts to relieve himself of the presumption of guilt ¡arising out of these facts, and therefore the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.