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102 Miss. 73

Johnson v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1912

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1912-03-15

Hon. W. A. Henry, Judge. Gertrude Johnson was convicted of unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquors for sale and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Appellant denied having the liquors for sale, or having sold any; and the testimony on both sides clearly showed that her husband was a hard drinker and spent most of his time and money that way. There was no evidence of any sale .by either husband or wife.

Decided 1912-03-15

Cook, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2Appellant was convicted in the circuit court of Hinds county on an indictment charging her with unlawfully keeping for sale vinous, malt, spirituous, alcoholic, and intoxicating liquors. The evidence shows that appellant was the. owner of a house in the city of Jackson, which the police of the city had had under surveillance for- some months. Tht policemen testified that they had seen numbers of white and black men going into this house, both in the nighttime and in the daytime; that, when the house was raided, beer in bottles and upon ice, and whiskey in bottles and in a jug, were found in the house, and half a cask of empty beer bottles in the yard, and quite a number of beer and whiskey bottles just over the back fence, and half a bushel of tin covers, which are used upon beer bottles, upon the ground just outside of the back door of this home. A corkscrew and a small whiskey glass were also found in the house.

¶3*77The appellant is very much dissatisfied with the verdict of the jury and the action of the court, and appeals to this court. We think there was ample evidence before the jury warranting them in finding appellant guilty of the charge preferred against her, and we can see no error in any action of the court at her trial.

¶4Affirmed.

¶5Suggestion of error filed and overruled.

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