State v. Williams and Wann

Defendants were charged by information filed in the Circuit Court of Iron County with the crime of transporting hootch, moonshine, corn whisky. A jury, October 3, 1927, found defendants guilty as charged, and the punishment of each was assessed at a fine of five hundred dollars and six months in the county jail. Appeal followed.

John Ruble, Deputy Sheriff of Iron County, had been informed by the prosecuting attorney and by citizens of Annapolis that the defendants were driving an automobile loaded with whisky along Highway No. 49, through the town of Annapolis. February 19, 1927, Ruble, with…