Harris v. State

CATES, Judge.

Gome Harris was indicted by the grand jury of Russell County for possessing a still contrary to Code 1940, Title 29, § 131. The court after the jury’s verdict adjudged the defendant guilty of possessing a still and sentenced him to two years in the penitentiary.

The trial judge summed up the case to the jury, so far as the facts go, as follows:

“The State contends that they went down here and found this man with a truck that was bogged down, and about 60 or 70 feet from this place, there was a still. And the truck had eight sacks of sugar on it and a sack of shorts, and when the…