State v. Ketchum

— An information was filed charging John Ketchum and A. Hannon with the crime of manufacturing moonshine liquor for the purpose of sale, barter, and exchange, and upon trial both defendants were found guilty. This appeal followed.

Since taking the appeal Hannon died, so that it is now prosecuted by Ketchum alone.

But two assignments of error are seriously urged in this court. The first is that the evidence was insufficient to warrant the submission of the case to the jury. The facts may be summarized as follows: Two deputy sheriffs, armed with a search warrant, went to a tract of ground at Lake…