State v. Thomas

Woods, Judge:

Defendant was convicted in the criminal court of Marion county and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary and fined, -on an indictment for unlawfully and feloniously owning, operating, maintaining, possessing, and having an interest in, etc., a moonshine still. A writ of error having been refused by the circuit court of said county, defendant prosecutes error to this Court.

On or about four o’clock in the afternoon of December 12, 1925, E. L. Hawkins, a Federal prohibition officer, together with state trooper Gladwell and certain other officers, 'being in possession of a…