Opinion
4 Div. 776.
June 16, 1931.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Coffee County, Enterprise Division; W. L. Parks, Judge.
John Grimes was convicted of unlawfully possessing prohibited liquor, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
Harry Adams, of Enterprise, for appellant.
Brief did not reach the Reporter.
Thos. E. Knight, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Jas. L. Screws, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
It is competent to prove by a witness that the contents of a bottle offered in evidence was whisky, where the source of the witness knowledge is subject to cross-examination. Nix v. Andalusia, 21 Ala. App. 439, 109 So. 182.
Violating prohibition law.
"Rum" is a prohibited liquor. Code 1923, § 4615.
There was no error in allowing the state's witnesses to testify, over appellant's objection, that the liquid, of which he was admittedly found in possession, was "rum." Harwell v. State, 12 Ala. App. 265, 68 So. 500, certiorari denied, etc., Id., 192 Ala. 689, 68 So. 1019.
The judgment of conviction is affirmed.
Affirmed.