Pruitt v. State

The evidence for the state tended to prove that defendant was in possession of a still suitable to be used for the purpose of manufacturing whisky. At the same time and place where the parts of the dismantled still were found, the state’s witnesses were allowed to testify over objection and exception that there were two barrels of beer, a large can that had had a fire around it, with some malt in the bottom which smelled like whisky, a furnace place about 30 feet away from where the beer and still parts were hidden, and at the place where the still parts were hidden under the fodder a…