Mattison v. State

145 So. 921, 25 Ala. App. 657

• Court: Alabama Court of Appeals
• Decided: January 31, 1933
• Docket: 7 Div. 963.
• Status: Published

Opinion

RICE, J.

It adds nothing to the value of the body of our law to discuss the testimony in every case involving the claimed illegal possession of prohibited liquor. ’

The circumstances showing, or sufficient to show, or failing, to show, to the requi'i'e'd' degree, such possession, are myriad; Almost every case has a little circumstance all its own.

• Suffice here to say that wé h'ave carefully 'examined the whole evidence; sitting'en bane.

The same is, in our opinion, and;‘w'e hold, entirely insufficient, -"under tlié'-' established rules of review, to sustain the verdict of the jury and the judgment of conviction rendered thereon.

For the error in overruling appellant’s motion to set same aside, etc., said judgment is reversed and the cause remanded. See our cases of Gilbert v. State, ante, p. 169, 142 So. 682; Allen v. State, 21 Ala. App. 23, 104 So. 867; and Guilford v. State, 20 Ala. App. 625, 104 So. 678.

Reversed and remanded.