State v. Moore

MEREDITH, PRESIDENT:

Defendant was convicted under an indictment charging him with unlawfully and feloniously owning, operating, maintaining, possessing and having an interest in a certain apparatus, mechanism and device for the manufacture of intoxicating liquors, commonly known as a moonshine still, against the peace and dignity of the state. He seeks a reversal of that judgment.

The evidence clearly shows that three police officers of the county in which defendant resided searched his house and premises, and found in the basement thereof, set up and ready for operation, an apparatus suitable…