Weeks v. State

RICE. J.

The indictment, containing a single count, charged the defendant with the unlawful possession of a still.

The case made by the state was that on a Saturday afternoon defendant and another were seen by the sheriff and a deputy at and around a still, located something like a mile and a half or two miles from defendant’s-home; that on the the following morning these officers returned to the place, and there saw the defendant and the other party working at the still, and, when the officers came into view, and ordered a surrender, both defendant and the other party ran. They were not…