James Ellis Mauldin and Daniel Sparks Roberts v. United States

GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judge.

Appellants seek to reverse a judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict under an indictment charging them with possessing an unregistered still in violation of Title 26 U.S.C.A. § 5601(a) (1). Their claim that the evidence was insufficient to warrant the convictions is utterly without merit. Three eye witnesses testified to seeing them, and them alone, working in and about the still. In addition, Mauldin’s automobile was at the still which was on the edge of a swamp in an isolated place. McFarland v. United States, 5 Cir., 1959, 273 F.2d 417.

Mauldin raises…