McElwaney v. State

The defendant was convicted of the offense of knowingly permitting apparatus for the distilling of whisky to be located on his premsies. The evidence for the State disclosed that numerous whisky “stills” had been found on or near the premises of the defendant, some of them near to his dwelling house, but as to most of these stills the witnesses were uncertain whether they were on the defendant's land. However, there was one still which was definitely located by the evidence as being in a certain cornfield 011 his land and near his dwelling house, he having rented the land from Dr. Howard. It…