Merck v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Dewey county on a charge of having possession of mash with the intent to violate the prohibitory liquor laws, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for a term of 90 days and a fine of $200.

The record discloses that in February, 1925, certain officers went to a canyon near the town of Putnam, where they had previously located some mash. On going across a tract of land before they reached the place where the mash was, they discovered a still in operation, with four persons about it,…