Tompkins v. Commonwealth

The accused has been convicted of unlawfully manufacturing ardent spirits. He is here assigning as error that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction.

The evidence for the Commonwealth shows that a special policeman, having “news that this still was run-*781ning,” and acting upon this information, took a companion with him to the still and found it in operation. Three men were found there. One of them was lying between the still and the worm. Tompkins, the accused, was sitting on a candy bucket, one witness says about a foot, and another about a foot or eighteen inches, “from where…