State v. Adkins

Hatches, Judge :

Tbis writ of error involves tbe admissibility of certain evidence upon a charge of operating a moonshine still, of which charge defendant was convicted.

Jennings Adkins had confessed to operating a still and was under sentence at. the time of this trial. He testified that about February 10, 1929, he saw the defendant (who is his brother) and Albert Morrison take part in making eight or ten gallons of whiskey on a moonshine still located on top of a high piney knob on Grassy Lick Branch; and that in connection with the still they used two mash barrels of about 50 gallons each.…