State v. Beall

Lively, Pbesident:

Upon an indictment charging- him with having in his possession a quantity of moonshine liquor defendant was convicted and sentenced to serve two months in jail and to pay a fine of $200.00. This writ of error is to that judgment and sentence.

There is little controversy of fact. The sheriff and his deputies who were witnesses at the trial had information and knowledge that a jug of moonshine liquor was buried in a field nearby a covered bridge near Polk Creek in Lewis County. In order to detect the offender they had been watching this cache of liquor by night, lying in the…