Layfield v. State

One of the disputed questions involved in this case is as to the venue. On this question the evidence was in conflict, that for the state that the still was located in St. Clair county or within one-quarter of a mile of the line and the evidence for defendant tending to prove the location to be more than one-quarter iof- a mile from the line and in Blount county. In this state of the evidence the defendant requested the following charge: “I charge you gentlemen of the jury, that if you have a reasonable doubt that said still was within one-fourth of a mile of St. Clair County, then there…