Walker v. Commonwealth

Thomas Walker and Cain Walker were separately indicted and were each convicted of the illegal manufacture of ardent spirits upon identical testimony, and the cases can be disposed of here by one opinion.

*596The only assignment of error is that the verdict is contrary to the evidence.

The evidence for the Commonwealth shows that three officers had been sent to investigate rumors that there was a still in the neighborhood of Red Uak, in Charlotte county. In their search they came to a point on a hillside from which they could look down on a small clearing about forty yards away. In this clearing…