Jones v. State

This appeal is from a judgment-of conviction for the offense of unlawfully possessing á still to be used for the purpose of manufacturing or distilling prohibited liquors. The indictment contained but one count, and the jury returned a general verdict finding the defendant guilty as charged. Indeterminate term of imprisonment in the penitentiary as a punishment was duly imposed as the law requires.

There is but one insistence of error and in this connection we are asked to hold, as a ''matter of law, that the state failed to meet the necessary burden of proof under which it rested, and that…