Strickland v. State

The indictment charged that the defendant did “knowingly have in his possession ... a certain apparatus for the distilling and manufacturing of intoxicating liquors and beverages.” Upon the trial of the ease the sheriff testified: “I received information that Perry Strickland was running a still, and I went to his home in Cobb county, along about the first of the year, , , I searched the home of the defendant *2and I found a still in the bedroom. In the basement I found 25 or 30 gallons of beer and three pecks — something like three peeks — of meal. It was a copper still. There was a pot and…