Pennington v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted of having pos session of a still, and was sentenced to pay a fine of |300 and be imprisoned in the county jail for 90 days, from which judgment the defendant has appealed.

The testimony on behalf of the state, in substance, is as follows: C. E. Simpson stated he was a deputy sheriff—

“I went to the defendant’s home on the 4th day of May, 1929, and asked him if certain parties had been to his house the night before, and if they got anything to drink, and the defendant said, ‘No’; I told him I wanted to look around, did not…