Deal v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

A witness went to the premises of the appellant and found two barrels of mash buried in the ground in the smoke-house upon the premises. An examination was made shortly after a rain and some twelve or fourteen feet from the smoke-house, there was mixed with the earth some old mash. This was refuse after the distilling process had been gone through. The mash in the barrels had meal and sugar in them and tasted sweet. It was not sour. The mash…