McCoy v. State

Appellant was convicted of the crime of manufacturing liquor, and prosecutes this appeal to reverse .the judgment of conviction.

Charles Houston, marshal of Batesville, and W. A. Landreth, a deputy sheriff, went to appellant’s house to iarrest some persons they thought were engaged in a crap game, but did not find any one shooting craps. While there, they looked through the house and found a twelve-gallon jar behind the stove, and looked into it and found what they thought was home-brew or something in the process of making.

Houston testified that appellant said: “If you had just waited a…