Black v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment charged in count one manufacturing prohibited liquors, and in count two the illegal possession of a still for the purpose of manufacturing prohibited liquors. The jury returned a general verdict of guilty. Punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three years.

The evidence for the State tends to show that on August 20, 1956, Arnold Baker, a federal investigator, and Hubert Hipp, a deputy sheriff of Marshall County, observed defendant and two other men working at a still. The still was of the tank type, partly buried in the ground, with…