Bevers v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, the unlawful manufacture of spiritous intoxicating liquor; penalty, three years in the penitentiary.

On a farm east of Ft. Worth officers found two stills and fifteen vats, eight of them five hundred gallon vats. Whiskey was running out of one of the stills when it was found and the appellant was present and apparently operating the still. Appellant claims he leased a farm of about 220 acres from a tenant of the owner and thereafter subleased to one Haynes for the purpose of raising chickens the particular portion of the premises on which the still and whiskey were…