Washington v. State

Before a defendant can be convicted of unlawfully possessing a still, etc., there must be proof authorizing the conclusion by the jury that the defendant, either alone or jointly with another, had an interest in, detained, exercised dominion over in his own keeping, or in that of another acting for him, the forbidden still, etc., or that he aided or abetted another in such possession. In Moody v. State, 104 So. 142, 20 Ala. App. 572, this court undertook to define "possession" as the word applies to the statute here under consideration, and in the Moody Case other citations were given. We…