Court Opinion

ID: 9825397
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 12:52:44.773318+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:46.710456
License: Public Domain

BRICKEH, P. J.
This appellant was charged by affidavit and warrant with the offense of violating the state prohibition law by having whisky in his possession. The prosecution originated in.the county court, in which court he was tried and convicted and appealed to the circuit court, where he was tried by a jury upon a complaint filed by the solicitor.' He was again convicted, and appealed to this court.
 The evidence in this case disclosed without dispute that in a room, which defendant voluntarily admitted was his room, the searching officers found secreted under the floor a ten-gallon keg containing whisky, and that a small .pipe came up through the floor from the keg into the said room. The defendant (appellant) was present when the officers began to search and informed them there was no whisky there. It is also without dispute in the evidence that he undertook to divert the officers from the house and invited them out to search the garage which contained his automobile; that he unlocked the door of the garage for the officers who searched the garage and found nothing. After which they went into the room beneath the floor where the keg of whisky was secreted, and that he (appellant) immediately left when they went into the room to search, and was gone when they came out with the keg of whisky. He was arrested a day or two afterwards. This evidence was sufficient in our opinion to make a jury question; all of *424the foregoing being without dispute. The affirmative charge was properly refused. Other exceptions reserved to the court’s rulings have been examined, but we find no error of a reversible nature. The judgment of conviction from which this appeal was taken will stand affirmed.
Affirmed.