Fowler v. United States

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of unlawfully carrying on the business of a distiller of spirituous liquors, working at an illegal distillery, and unlawfully making 600 gallons of mash fit for distillation.1 The sole asserted ground for reversal is the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

The prosecution’s evidence tended to show that on Saturday, April 9, 1955, at about 10:30 A. M., state revenue agents raided an illegal still in open country about two miles from Warm Springs, Georgia. They found three men and a twelve-year-old boy at the still. Two…