Anderson v. Commonwealth

Robert Anderson was indicted under section 4-57, Code of 1950, for unlawfully and feloniously manufacturing al*259coholic beverages. He was tried by the court, found “guilty of an attempt to manufacture illegally alcoholic beverages * * and sentenced to confinement for one year in the penitentiary.

The punishment for an attempt to manufacture illegally alcoholic beverages is the same as that prescribed for the actual illegal manufacture. Section 4-87, Code of 1950. Thus the punishment inflicted was warranted if an attempt to manufacture was proved.

Whether, when all just inferences that may be…