Orr v. State

Officers raided a distillery not in operation, and found several gallons of beer ready to run. This being immediately after a heavy rain, they trailed two sets of tracks from the still to the house of one Shackleford about four hundred yards distant, and found visiting there the defendant Orr and a companion, jointly indicted, with red mud on their clothes similar to that with which the foundation of the still had been constructed. The defendant claimed that the mud had got on their clothes up the road where their car had broken down. The officer admitted that it could have got on their…