State v. Jackson

Baker, CJ.:

The appellants were tried at the June, 1946, term of General Sessions Court for Chesterfield County on an indictment charging them with the unlawful manufacture of alcoholic liquors. They were found guilty by the jurjr and this appeal followed.

At the conclusion of the testimony on the part of the State the appellants moved for a directed verdict of acquittal on the grounds that there was no evidence to show that either of the defendants was engaged in the manufacture of alcoholic liquors, which motion was refused, and it is from the refusal of such motion that the first of the two…