Boyer v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is possession of equipment for manufacturing whisky; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Acting under a search warrant, officers went to the Boyer Hotel and searched room 214. They found therein a still, a pot, two barrels of mash, and other equipment. In the room there was a 5-gallon jar full of some kind of liquor that smelled like whisky. In a linen closet down the hall outside of the room they found a burner, a stand, two 5-gallon kegs, some pint bottles and half-gallon jars. The linen closet was unlocked. Appellant was not near the…