Moody v. State

By the presentment in this case plaintiff in error was charged in three counts with manufacturing whisky, attempting to manufacture whisky, and having in his possession parts of a still for that purpose. He was convicted upon the third count, his punishment being fixed at a fine of $100 and a workhouse sentence of four months.

Armed with a search warrant officers went to a house in Columbia, and found eight barrels of mash in various stages of fermentation, a boiler and a worm set up ready to run, and a keg sitting under the spout of this worm with a little whisky in the same. There was no one…