State v. Stough

By an information filed in the Circuit Court of Phelps County, appellant was charged with the unlawful manufacture of hootch, moonshine and corn whiskey. He was convicted and the jury assessed his punishment at a fine of $500, and jail imprisonment for six months. Judgment and sentence followed the verdict and he appealed.

The State's evidence shows that on October 19, 1926, appellant was living on a farm about five miles west of Rolla in Phelps County. About ten o'clock in the morning of that day, the sheriff and one of his deputies went to appellant's house with a search warrant. While the…