White v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for manufacturing intoxicating liquor; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

Officers found appellant reading a paper, sitting something like three or four feet from a still which was in operation. . A shot gun was near by. A few feet away were eight barrels of mash. A gallon or two of whisky was in a container, and some eighty yards from the still a five gallon keg of the same liquor was found. The still was located in a pasture some two or three hundred yards from the house in which appellant lived. The record does not disclose the nearness of any other house.…