Hicks v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting appellant of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and fixing his punishment at a fine of $500.00 and six months in jail.

That the verdict is not sustained by the evidence is the principal ground urged for reversal. Though this was denied by appellant, the prosecuting witness, Elba Roberts, a young man 19 years of age, testified that within twelve months before the finding of the indictment he went to a place in “Prichard holler” and there saw appellant and two other men engaged in making moonshine whiskey. It…