Romano v. State

Citations

• 115 Miss. 192
• 76 So. 141

Syllabus

<p>Intoxicating Liquors. Illegal possession. Evidence. Sufficency.</p> <p>A conviction of the illegal possession of liquors could not be sustained under the Laws of 1916, chapter 103, where the agreed statement of facts showed that an officer went to defendant’s store and there caught a small boy carrying out a package containg unlawful quantities of liquor, which had been given him by a third party in the store other than the defendant and it was not shown that such third party had any connection with the store or with the defendant, or that defendant had any connection with the liquor.</p>