Bowen v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Turner, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Appellant was convicted under an indictment charging him with being in possession of an illicit still designed for the unlawful manufacture of spirituous liquor.

It appears that on the 16th day of May, 1922, a federal prohibition officer made an affidavit before the United States commissioner at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, as the basis for a search warrant thereafter issued by the commissioner, and when the search warrant was executed the still was found in a barn on appellant’s farm with unmistakable evidence that it had recently been in…