Graves and Tucker v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, the unlawful manufacture of intoxcating liquor; penalty, five years in the penitentiary.

Officers driving along a road were fired upon by appellant Tucker. They prepared to return the fire, whereupon Tucker threw his pistol away and surrendered. About this time appellant Ben Graves was observed running at a distance of about a hundred yards away. Officers thereafter found a still in operation some twenty-five or thirty feet from where Graves was first observed. Whiskey was running from this still. There was present around same forty-three barrels of mash, 115 or 120…