Cooksey v. State

The plaintiff in error, John Cooksey, designated the defendant, was charged with the illegal possession of a still worm, a part of a still used in the manufacturing of whisky. The jury, by a majority verdict, found him guilty as charged, and the court fixed his punishment at the minimum prescribed by the statutfe— 30 days in the county jail and a fine of $50.

Under authority of a search warrant, the sheriff and his deputy found on the premises of the defendant, in his absence, two small copper tubes hidden in some cotton seed in a seed house or granary. Later they found in a dugout two copper…