Thornton v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for manufacturing intoxicating liquor; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

Upon information received officers went to a point in the woods on a branch about one-half or three-quarters of a mile from appellant’s house at night and there saw several parties engaged in the manufacture of whisky. Some shots were fired by the parties at the still, and the officers closed in upon them, capturing one old man named Hawkman, but the others escaped. There were barrels of mash, a steel drum or barrel making whisky over a fire, and several gallons of the finished product.…