Widgeon v. Commonwealth

The accused was tried and convicted upon an indictment charging him with unlawfully owning and operating a still for the manufacture of ardent spirits. The jury fixed the punishment of the accused at a fine of $75.00 and forty-five days confinement in the county jail.

The motion to set aside the verdict of the jury being overruled, the trial court entered judgment thereon accordingly.

The first error assigned challenges the action of the-court in admitting in evidence a notebook taken from the person of the accused, which contained the following entries: “Two barrels, $5.00; one barrel, $2.75;…