Parsons v. State

The defendant was convicted of the offense of distilling, etc., and appeals.

The evidence, in its strongest aspects for the state, was to the effect that “some liquor and a still were found about 300 yards from what is described as the ‘Gobde Franklin place or house’; that it was not known who lived there; that some rubber shoes, a sack of rice, four empty sugar sacks, some letters addressed to Bill Hougue, a bill to Taylor Parsons (the defendant), marked paid, from 1-Iuey Grain Company, Bessemer, Ala., for four sacks of sugar were' found in the house; that the still was about a 400-gallon…