Newton v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

It was charged by indictment that on or about the 12th day of February, 1921 accused manufactured intoxicating liquor. Upon the trial he was convicted and his punishment assessed .at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant lived upon his father’s farm which consisted óf a large tract of land. The house in which appellant lived was about fifty or seventy-five yards from that of his father. The latter was an elderly man, very feeble and confined most of the time to the house. The officers found in a cave which had been dug in the bank of a ravine a still, tub, copper…