Copeland v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The indictment was in two counts. One count charged the manufacturing of whisky and the second charged the unlawful possession of a still, etc. The verdict was general and referable to either count.

The evidence for the State was positive and tended to prove every fact necessary to establish the corpus delicti and to connect this defendant with the commission of the offense. The evidence for the defendant was to the contrary so far as it tended to connect the defendant with the crime, but under proper instructions from the court these questions were properly submitted to the…