Pratt v. State

W. E. Pratt prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him upon an indictment charging him with being interested in the manufacture of alcoholic, fermented, and intoxicating liquors, contrary to the statute.

On the part of the State it was shown that the sheriff of Lawrence County procured a search warrant to search the house of Lute Smith, situated in the Eastern District of Lawrence County, Ark., for a still.. When the officers reached Smith’s home, he was absent, but they found his wife and daughter and the defendant Pratt in the house. Upon searching the house they…