RUSSELL, Judge.
Where, in the absence of the proprietor of a service station, officers find five gallons of nontax-paid liquor in the bottom of a drain pit under a wash rack located on the outside of the building and accessible to all passers-by, the evidence that the proprietor is the owner of the liquor is merely circumstantial and is insufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused. Kelly v. State,
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