Myers v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

Officers, who testified as witnesses, found two stills and a quantity of whisky in a thick woods near a spring or branch. Appellant and several other persons were present. The appellant, a farmer about forty years of age, had lived in the vicinity for a number of years. According to his testimony, he had accompanied one Cornwell to the stills at his request to recover some nets and fish which Cornwell claimed to have lost. One of…