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Show BODTLEGHG WILL BE S DIFFICULT HEinil Such running in and running out, As to leave the Jurors all In doubt, Whether the man that made the track, Was going to Ogden or coming back. "That's the 'reasonable doubt' of which we shall hear so much when the 'bootleg' cases are tried from now on," today said County Attornoy Charles L. Farr, who was advising with Sheriff Herbert C. Peterson and his deputies regarding arrests under the new law. making it illegal "to carry" moro than sixteen ounces of Intoxicating liquor into dry territory. Mr. Farr warned all concerned to beware of the defense lawyers who Will plead the absence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant "carried" liquor as alleged; that the law says "to cany," and if a man is found standing on the street In Hunts-ville Hunts-ville with a jug of liquor the people must prove that he carried It there. Mr. Farr was merely advising that all officers be absolutely sure they havo the proof that tho accused carried car-ried or brought the liquor into dry territory, for on this point many defendants de-fendants may be expected to base their pleas for acquittal. Samuel Allen of Iluntsville, sentenced sentenc-ed yesterday by Municipal Judge Geo. S. Barker to pay a flno of $299 or serve six months in jail, gave bond and engaged en-gaged a lawyer to appeal his case. This tost in the supreme court will also decldo, it is said, the constitutionality constitu-tionality of the provision giving tho officers tho right to search anyone whom they suspect of having an illegal ille-gal amount of liquor on the person. "Many future decisions," said At-torn6y At-torn6y Farr, "will probably rest upon absolute proof of tho identity of the 'toto, tho toter and tho totee,' In which all teetotalers have a very active Interest." In-terest." "We will leavo It to the supreme court," said Mr. Farr, as Supreme Justice Jus-tice Valentino Gideon entered the sheriff's sher-iff's offlco. Everyone laughed and the dignified justice glared at tho merrymakers. merry-makers. He had heard the proposition, proposi-tion, but was grimly silent, showing by his manner that he regarded the appeal ap-peal as Incompetent, Irrelevant and unanswerable. |