Register v. State

This defendant was tried under an indictment containing five counts. ’The jury returned a verdict of guilty under the third count, ufiiich charged that he did. distill, make, or manufacture an alcoholic liquor or beverage commonly known as moonshine whisky, etc. This verdict operated as an acquittal of the charges contained in the other four counts of the indictment.

On this appeal it is insisted that the court committed error in several of its rulings upon the testimony; also in certain statements made to the jury in the oral charge.

The exception to the statement made hy the court in the oral…