State v. Duncan and Smith

By an information filed in the Circuit Court of Pemiscot County, Walter Duncan and Sell Smith (appellants) and C.N. Duncan, Walter Akers and Hiram Bullock were jointly charged with the unlawful sale of one-half pint of moonshine, corn whiskey in that county on January 25, 1925. They were tried together. At the close of the State's case in chief, the State dismissed as to Hiram Bullock. The jury acquitted C.N. Duncan and Walter Akers, but found Walter Duncan and Sell Smith guilty and assessed their punishment at a fine of $500. Failing in their motion for a new trial, they appealed from the…