Williams v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of De Soto comity. IioN. GReeic L. Rice, Judge. Moody Williams was convicted of manufacturing intoxicating liquors, and he appeals. The corpus delicti is not established in this case by evidence offered by the state; by evidence aliunde the confession alleged to have been made, or by all the evidence taken as a whole as shown by the record.
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Appeal from circuit court of De Soto comity. IioN. GReeic L. Rice, Judge. Moody Williams was convicted of manufacturing intoxicating liquors, and he appeals. The corpus delicti is not established in this case by evidence offered by the state; by evidence aliunde the confession alleged to have been made, or by all the evidence taken as a whole as shown by the record. There is no evidence of whiskey having been manufactured or that -any of the alleged implements were used in the manufacture of whiskey or that they were adapted to the manufacture of whiskey, and no whiskey was discovered',…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
Appellant, Moody Williams, was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of I)e Soto county of the crime of manufacturing intoxicating liquors, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years, from which he prosecutes this appeal.
Appellant was arrested at night without a warrant, and placed in jail at Hernando, the county site of De Soto county, where he remained until the next morning. On the next morning, which was Sunday, either before or about daylight, the appellant was taken out of jail *473while handcuffed, and placed in an automobile and carried to his home, about seven miles…
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