Rinehart v. State

The appellant was convicted' under an indictment which, in good form, charged him with the crime of making- and fermenting mash, wort and wash fit for distillation or for the manufacture of alcoholic liquors, on the first of October, 1923, in Hempstead County, Arkansas, contrary to the provisions of act No. 324 of the Acts of 1921.

The testimony was to the effect that a deputy sheriff and others searched the premises of appellant, and found in his smokehouse a barrel full of sweetened water in a big goods-box, a washtub full of fermented mash or malt, a little over half a sack of sugar, and…