Chandler v. State

Appellant was indicted for manufacturing intoxicating liquors and convicted and sentenced for an attempt to manufacture intoxicating liquors. The indictment was at the April, 1921, term of the circuit court of Leake county, Miss. It appears from the evidence that J. W. Phillips, the deputy sheriff, with two constables of the county up near where the still was located, discovered certain barrels of mash a few days before making the raid and, judging as to when the run would probably be made from the state of the mash, appointed a day to return and watch so as to catch the person engaged in the…