Ratzell v. State

John Ratzell, plaintiff in error, defendant in the trial court, was on November 9, 1922, by a verdict of a jury rendered in the county court of Canadian county, convicted of an attempt to illegally manufacture whisky on October 17, 1922, with his punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for a period of three months, and to pay a fine of $250.

Harry Smith, a laborer, in traveling from his place of abode to the northwest section of Canadian county in search of work, passed near a distillery which was in operation and around which there were some three or four people. After having…