Hourigan v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Caddo county on a charge of having the possession of mash fit for distillation, under section 1, c. 42, Session Laws 1924 (Special Session), and he was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to serve 60 days in the county jail.

The record discloses that at the time charged certain officers had discovered the parts of a still and a quantity of mash concealed in a canyon not far from the town of Carnegie. A few* nights later they lay in wait nearby, and during the night defendant, his uncle, father-in-law,…