Martin v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for manufacturing alcoholic 'liquor, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. He specifies one error of the court on which he relies for a reversal of this case, relating to the admission of certain testimony of Sheriff John C. Lee, wherein the witness Lee was permitted to testify, over appellant’s objection, to a certain conversation he had at the still with one Tom Copeland, to the effect that 20 of the 26 (barrels of the. mash found at the still was appellant’s mash, and that he had run two barrels of appellant’s mash that morning. This…