Coleman v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Reversing.

Appellant was indicted in the Pike circuit court for the offense of unlawfully manufacturing intoxocating liquors. On the trial of the case he was found guilty and his 'punishment fixed at a fine of $300.00 and sixty days in.jail. The evidence for .appellant was obtained by means of a search warrant under which the officers entered the dugout about a hundred yards from his house, where they found a still and outfit, seven barrels of mash, some' middlings, etc. The search warrant was issued by John Maynard, the police judge of Phelps, a town…