Fries v. People

Fries was convicted of possessing a still, brings error and moves for a supersedeas. We think the judgment was right.

It is claimed that the evidence against him was solely that of an accomplice, but that is not correct. In addition to the testimony of the accomplice there was undisputed evidence of defendant’s presence, parking his car night after night at or near the still, with no purpose disclosed other than to use it.

Misconduct of the district attorney is charged. Keirstein, the accomplice on whose testimony the case chiefly depended, had testified under cross-examination that there was…