Stringer v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Van Zandt County of the illegal manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The facts in the case are practically without dispute. For the State it was shown that certain officers went to the farm of appellant’s father, and that at a certain place and on a certain spring branch discovered in operation two stills by means of which whisky was being manufactured. Appellant was found in charge of said stills and resisted arrest by the attempted use of a…