Anderson v. Commonwealth

195 Va. 258 (1953)

ROBERT ANDERSON

v.

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.

Record No. 4125.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 12, 1953.

A. Clair Sager, for the plaintiff in error.

Present, All the Justices.

Defendant was indicted under Code 1950, section 4-57, for unlawfully manufacturing alcoholic beverages and was convicted of an attempt to commit that crime. He was arrested near a still to which he admitted hauling supplies at the direction of an accomplice. At the time of his arrest the mash was in condition for distillation the next day and the apparatus for distilling it was set up so that connection of…