Wilkerson v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Ellis County of the offense of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one and one-half 'years in the penitentiary.

The State introduced Gus Mitchell and Mary Mitchell who testified that appellant brought a still to their house and set it up and made whisky. On one occasion he made about five gallons and on another occasion he made two gallons. Each of said witnesses drank of the liquor and appellant seems to have given them a part of it. There is other testimony in the record which would seem to indicate…