Hubbard v. State

The defendant, Buck Hubbard, and Y. A. Armor were indicted for the manufacturing of spirituous liquor in. Taliaferro County. The sheriff of Taliaferro County testified: “I have been knowing Mr. Hubbard [the defendant] about a year before that [referring to the time that he says he saw him at the still in question]. I was in ten foot of him when he was toting that mash [to the still]. I was in a gully and he passed backwards and forwards in ten feet of me. I positively identify him as the man.” The witness further testified that the mash “was fermented and ready to run.” The sheriff of Wilkes…