Rikard v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

Conviction was under Section 131, Title 29, Code of 1940, for the illegal possession of a moonshine still.

The State’s case, under the evidence, was that the defendant and two others, not on trial, were working at the still when the raid was made. The defendant and one Stout were “measuring up the liquor”, siphoning it from a large barrel into smaller kegs, and the third, one Devaney, was removing the worm from the still. When the State’s witness first obtained a view of the scene “they were pulling the fire from under the still.” The still and surrounding premises indicated a…