Mills v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Nacogdoches County for manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The sheriff testified that on the 20th day of April, 1923, he went out to appellant’s place to search for a still and saw appellant and informed him of his purpose, and-that appellant told him if he had gotten there fifteen or twenty minutes before he did they would have caught him making whiskey. Thereupon the officer went to the rear of appellant’s' house and in a smokehouse or cellar appellant delivered to them…