Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucf-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!duke!ucf-cs!goldfarb From: goldfarb@ucf-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.legal Subject: Justice in Arkansas Message-ID: <1852@ucf-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 16:13:58 EST Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.1852 Posted: Wed Jan 2 16:13:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:17:48 EST Organization: UCF, Orlando, FL Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.jokes:10150 net.legal:1177 I heard this on the radio this morning. It is apparently a true story. A man was arrested and convicted of moonshining even though the cops didn't find any booze when they legally searched his premises. What they did find was a still and all the necessary peripherals to make whiskey. The judge was asked by the defendant how he could be found guilty if the court had no evidence of his wrongdoing; the response was that having the requisite equipment is enough to convict. To which the defendant replied, "Then you might as well convict me of rape, too!" -- Ben Goldfarb University of Central Florida uucp: {duke,decvax}!ucf-cs!goldfarb ARPA: goldfarb.ucf-cs@csnet.relay.CSNET csnet: goldfarb@ucf.CSNET