Dorsey v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is possession of a still and equipment for the purpose of manufacturing intoxicating liquor; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

About the 1st of June, 1928, officers found appellant and his wife near two stills and some barrels of mash. The stills were not in operation, but appeared to have been in use. At the time the officers approached appellant was pouring some hops in one of the mash barrels. He also had some sugar with him. The officers were of the opinion that he had forty or fifty pounds of sugar. They searched appellant’s…