State v. . McMillan
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendants from Finley, J., at April Term, 1920, of SCOTLAND. The defendants, four brothers, were convicted of manufacturing liquor, and from the judgment upon such conviction they appealed to this Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Walker,' J.
The jury might very well have acquitted the defendants, but as it did not, the main question on this appeal is whether or not there is any evidence which justified such conviction. That evidence is wholly circumstantial, but, from the nature of such offenses, that quite frequently is the only evidence available,'but sometimes it is of so strong a character as to be really more convincing than any other kind. We have affirmed convictions for this class of offenses where the-testimony was not as strong as that we find in this record. S. v. Horner, 174 N. C., 788; S. v. Carroll, 176…
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