Gothard v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

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

The officers had received information of the location of a still. They found it and described in detail the apparatus. They also found several barrels of mash, one ready to be “run”. There were also some fruit jars, one partly full of whiskey. The still showed evidence of having been used theretofore. Shortly after the officers secreted themselves appellant appeared carrying fifty pounds of sugar and an axe which articles he placed on the ground near the…