Strange v. Commonwealth

This writ of error brings under review the proceedings of a trial in which David Strange and Robert Lee Morse were convicted of illegally manufacturing alcoholic beverages, sentenced to six months’ confinement in jail and fined $100 each.

Defendants contend that the Commonwealth failed to establish the corpus delicti.

Three officers, armed with á search warrant, searched the farm operated by Robert Lee Morse. They found the following articles within a few hundred yards of the dwelling occupied by Morse, his wife and several small children: (1) A barrel half full of mash under fodder and corn…