Melton v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The conviction is for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year;

The evidence is wholly circumstantial. The facts are not conflicting. The sheriff and other officers found at the home of the appellant a can, coil and four quarts of corn whiskey. The coil was in a sack, the whiskey was in bottles, and all were in one box which was setting in one of the rooms of the two-room dwelling occupied by the appellant and his wife. There were found no other utensils or equipment usable in the manufacture…