State v. Padgett

Lively, Judge: •

Defendant, Elmer Padgett, prosecutes this writ of error from a judgment of the circuit court pronounced on the 27th day of May, 1922, sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for three and a half years and to pay a fine of $500 and costs, on a verdict finding him guilty of owning operating, maintaining, possessing and having an interest in a “moonshine still.”

In February, 1922, J. Walter Bee, then a state prohibition officer, accompanied by W. A. Smith, captain of police of Parkersburg, William L. Hays and Hobart G. Smith, members of the state police, went, with a…