Francis v. State

These appeals are from judgments of conviction of appellant for possessing a still and manufacturing whiskey. These cases are consolidated here.

It is insisted for reversal that the testimony is insufficient to support the judgment, and that the court erred in compelling appellant to go to trial in the absence of his witnesses.

The testimony shows that the sheriff and his posse had come out to where this still was situated, and found it in operation on the day in question, the appellant being present in and about the still, and pouring water from the branch on the stillworm in the trough. He…