Johnson v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellants were jointly tried and convicted of unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and their punishment assessed at one year each in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the sheriff and his deputy discovered the appellants making whiskey out in the woods three or four miles from their residences, and found in close proximity thereto several barrels of mash. The appellants defended upon the ground that the whiskey was being manufactured by appellant Johnson for medicinal purposes, to be used by his wife, and that the appellant Evers, brother-in-law of Johnson,…