Towler v. State

Tom Towler and Nimmie Barnett were jointly indicted for manufacturing intoxicating liquors. Both defendants were tried jointly, and both found guilty of “attempting to manufacture whisky.” The defendants allege that the trial judge erred in overruling their motion for a new trial.

Ray Swords testified, in substance, that at about 11 o’clock of a certain day in July, 1930, he and Bob Davis found “two vals.of beer and a stilling outfit” close to Shiloh Church'; that to the best of witness’s knowledge the place where the still outfit was found *263was in Gwinnett county; that “Towler and Barnett,…