Stewart v. State

The defendant was charged in the first count of the indictment with distilling, and in the second count with having in his possession a still to be used for, manufacturing prohibited liquors. There was a verdict of guilt as charged in the first count/

The evidence for the state tended to show that the defendant and one Culpepper were carrying beer from barrels 20 or 25 feet away to a still from which “there was a- drip from the pipe into the fruit jar, the dripping was a low grade of rum, a species of whisky, and contained alcohol.”

The state witnesses had seen the still the night before, and…