Deaton, Haddix and White v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming.

In February, 1923, Deaton, White and Carpenter were each deputies under the sheriff of Breathitt county, and Haddix was a constable of that county.

They went together to a remote section of the county for the purpose of serving papers for an approaching term of the circuit court; but while in that section they received information of the existence and location of some moonshine stills, and sought to find and destroy them. They destroyed one, and on the following day went to Horse branch of Quicksand creek in search of another. They finally…