Coe v. State

Fletcher Coe has appealed from a judgment of conviction against him for the statutory crime of keeping in his possession an unregistered still.

The first assignment of error is that the evidence is not legally sufficient to warrant the verdict. According to the evidence for the State, the sheriff and his posse, upon information, located a copper still in Miller County» Arkansas, about three o’clock in the morning, during the latter part of October, 19'27. The still was complete and ready for operation, but no one was at it. The officers hid, and remained near the still until after daylight.…