White v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquors; penalty, three years in the penitentiary.

Officers testified to having seen appellant and one Delaney operating a still near the house of appellant for several hours on the morning of about the 10th of February, 1926. The still was finally raided by the officers and freshly run whiskey was found. Delaney ran off with this whiskey but finally dropped it and the officers recovered it.

Testimony offered for appellant tended to show that he was in fact absent from this still practically all the time it was being observed by the…