Ellis v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

The sheriff went to a tent in which the appellant lived and there found an apparatus with which whisky could be manufactured and some whisky in the process of making. The sheriff said that the appellant told him that he had lost all of his property and was driven into making whisky; that he did not make it for sale and had not sold any, though he afterwards, according to the sheriff, admitted that he had sold one jar of whisky. He said…