McNeel v. State

The three defendants, one a negro and the other two white men, were indicted jointly. The first count charged the unlawful manufacture of whisky, and, the second, the unlawful possession of a still, etc.. There was a third count, but the conviction was had on the first and second, and hence we do not consider the third.

The facts as disclosed by the record tend to prove a whisky still located on the side of a mountain in St. Clair county, remote from any habitation and in a wood near the foot of the mountain. This still had -been recently operated when the officers found it. It was still warm…