Harvey v. State

The defendant was convicted for the unlawful possession of a still.

The evidence for the state tended to show that certain state law enforcement officers searched the house of the defendant and found several jugs and bottles that had had whisky in them, but failed to find any whisky there; that they found on the premises of the defendant, about 60 or 70 yards from his house, “two barrels of beer, a trough, and a still,” and a 30-gallon barrel of beer in his crib, “corn and sugar fermented”; that there was alcohol in it, and it was for making whisky. After proper predicate was laid, the state…