Newbill v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of George County on an indictment charging him with the unlawful possession of a distillery, commonly called a still. He was sentenced to a term of one year in the State penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction.

The State rested its case upon the .testimony of Shelby L. Smith, Sheriff of George County, and it. B». Cochran, his deputy, and at the close of this testimony appellant’s motion for a directed verdict was overruled. The appellant offered no evidence in his own behalf. The State’s proof showed…