Foshee v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pike Circuit Court; James 8. Steel, Judge. Since appellants are accused of making and manufacturing liquor, nothing short of proof that the crime was actually committed in the actual making and manufacturing liquor would be sufficient to justify a conviction.
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Appeal from Pike Circuit Court; James 8. Steel, Judge. Since appellants are accused of making and manufacturing liquor, nothing short of proof that the crime was actually committed in the actual making and manufacturing liquor would be sufficient to justify a conviction. The words “make and manufacture” become descriptive of the offense, and must be proved as charged. 62 Ark. 459; £4 do. 286; 71 do. 415; 64 do. 188; 37 do. 408; 36 do. 178; 16 do. 499; 129 do. 362. It was a question for the jury whether the words “make and manufacture intoxicating liquors” have a special meaning limiting them…
1Opinion of the CourtHxjmpheeys, J.
Appellants were separately indicted, tried and convicted at the March term, 1921, of the Pike Circuit Court, for the crime of making intoxicating liquors, and, as a punishment for the crime, each was adjudged to serve one year in the State penitentiary. From the respective judgments of conviction each has duly prosecuted an appeal to this court. While the facts are somewhat different, the vital question involved in the appeals is the same in all the cases, so the respective appeals will the treated in one opinion.
The evidence on the part of the State in the cases of the appellants John W. W.…
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