Grimm v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is manufacturing intoxicating liquor; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

While passing across appellant’s land, officers discovered a still in operation in a dugout near appellant’s residence. Shortly before finding the still, they saw appellant leave the dugout. The still was in operation. Whiskey was being manufactured. They could see the still in operation before they entered the dugout.

Appellant testified that the still did not belong to him and that he did not know it was in the dugout until the officers made the search. Appellant’s…