Williams v. State

The appellant and Odell Williams were convicted, and sentenced by the court to a term of two charged jointly with the manufacture of whisky. Odell pleaded guilty. The appellant, Lacy Williams, was tried, years in the state penitentiary.

Odell, a boy seventeen years of age, was the stepson of appellant. It seems that the officers had been “after them” for some time. Prior to their arrest, appellant’s home had been searched by the officers under authority of a search warrant, where signs of liquor were found. A “double bitted” chopping axe, observed at the home of appellant, was later found at…