JONES v. STATE


259 S.W.2d 864 (1953)

JONES v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

On Petition for Rehearing July 17, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. McCloud, LaFollette, Walker, Hooker, Keeble, Dodson & Harris, Nashville, for plaintiff in error.

Nat Tipton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


NEIL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of transporting more than a gallon of whiskey with the defendant's punishment being fixed at a year and a day in the State penitentiary.

The principal assignments of error are based upon the contention that the search of the defendant's automobile was unlawful. Other assignments are (1) that the trial judge erred in overruling the defendant's plea in abatement to the indictment, the same being returned...

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