State v. Patachas

Lively, Judge:

On appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace defendant was found guilty by a jury for an infraction of the prohibition laws, and sentenced to pay $100 fine, and to be imprisoned for ninety day^ at hard labor.

Three members of the state police armed with a search warrant found ten gallons of “mash” in a vessel behind the stove in defendant’s kitchen. The mash, composed of cracked corn, peaches, lemons, prunes and water, was in a high state of fermentation. Defendant was arrested, tried' and convicted on a warrant charging him with having in his possession a quantity of…