Elms v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is manufacturing intoxicating liquor; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

Operating under a search warrant, officers searched appellant’s private residence and found therein a complete still having about two hundred gallons capacity, about one hundred barrels of mash, twelve or fifteen gallons of whiskey and twenty-two cases of empty fruit jars. The still was hot. Two buckets containing whiskey were under pipes connected with the still. Whiskey was dripping from these pipes. Appellant told the officers that he and another man had been…