Couch v. State

Offense, the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor; penalty, five years in the penitentiary.

Officers observed two trucks go to and come away from a bam. The trucks were stopped, and on one was a number of empty gasoline barrels, and on the other in the neighborhood of SO gallons of whisky. Going to the barn from whence these trucks had come, they found there two complete stills. The stills were warm and smoking at the time. They also found there in the neighborhood of 3,000 gallons of mash, a lot of syrup, and some bran. There were five men there.

The state introduced three witnesses,…