Lunsford v. Commonwealth

*274On the afternoon of Saturday, August 23, 1941, Elbert Bailey, deputy sheriff for Surry county, accompanied by E. D. Cox and a Mr. Clark, on information, went to look for a still believed to be making whiskey and unlicensed.

The search was along an arterial highway leading from Surry courthouse in a westerly direction past Spring Grove Church. They did find such a still about one-half mile north of that road, and near it were stacked twenty-three cases of unstamped whiskey.

To the end that they might arrest the guilty party, they sat around in the woods until about four o’clock Sunday morning.…