Wheeler v. Commonwealth

At the May, 1950, term of the Circuit Court of Nelson county three indictments were found against John Will Wheeler. In the first count of one of these indictments he was charged with having unlawfully and feloniously manufactured alcoholic beverages on April 20, 1950, in violation of Code, § 4-57. The first count of a misdemeanor indictment charged him with the unlawful possession of “ a still and distilling apparatus ’ ’ on May 11,1950, in violation of Code, § 4-77. The first count of another misdemeanor indictment charged him with the unlawful possession of illegally acquired alcoholic…