Bates v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District court of Fisher county of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at two years and nine months in the penitentiary.

A still and several gallons of whiskey and many containers having in them small quantities of whiskey or the odor of same, were found on appellant’s premises. The still was about four hundred yards from the house and about a half gallon of whisky was in a jar at the still. Three gallon jars of whisky were hidden in a cane patch, and a jar with whisky in it was under the house; a quantity of sprouted corn…