Bates v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

Reversing.

The indictment under which appellant was convicted accused him of the “offense of having- in possession and aiding and assisting and harboring a moonshine still, committed in manner and form as follows, to-wit: The said defendant on the 26th day of July, 1920, in the county and circuit aforesaid, did unlawfully have in his possession, operate and aid, assist, harbor and encourage persons, in the operation of a moonshine still.”

The officers testified that they went to- appellant’s land and found a moonshine still thereon two or three hundred yards…