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BEWLEY v. STATE

347 S.W.2d 40 (1961)

Percell BEWLEY v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 26, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Vaughan, Johnson City, for plaintiff in error.

Thomas E. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

PREWITT, Chief Justice.

The defendant below, Percell Bewley, was convicted for possessing a quantity of moonshine whiskey and sentenced to serve not less than one year nor more than one year and one day in State Prison.

The defense of the defendant is that the search by which the whiskey was found was illegal.

It appears that the Sheriff of Washington County, accompanied by three deputy sheriffs entered upon...

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