Nobles v. State

Having been convicted of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, Thomas Nobles filed his motion for a new trial containing only the general grounds.

B. E. Marsh, sheriff of Effingham county, testified: that the defendant “brought down there [to the still] a jug and some wood and got a sack of sugar and went back after the second trip, as it was then light enough to look at us;” that “Carr slipped up where he had thrown down the other lot of stuff, and when he came back with the other sugar we hailed him, and he ran;” that “the still had been in operation a whole lot of times, but not when we went…