Boyd v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

The two defendants were, by agreement, jointly tried under separate indictments, charging the illegal transportation of prohibited liquors in a quantity of five gallons or more, as denounced by General Acts of Alabama 1927, pp. 704, 705.

The two defendants were seen coming from the direction of a moonshine still, each with a ten gallon keg of illicit liquor on his shoulder. Upon seeing one of the raiding officers, each dropped his keg of liquor, fled, and was shortly thereafter apprehended. The liquor was still hot, apparently having recently been manufactured. Motion of the…