Bonner v. State

Ed Lee Bonner was convicted of manufacturing intoxicating liquors, and he excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial.

No witness swore that he saw the defendant making liquor, or at the still, or that the liquor was on land owned, rented, or controlled by the defendant, and the nearest that any witness put the distillery to the defendant’s home was 500 or 600 yards, and one witness for the defendant testified: “I stepped it to be 1128 steps as straight as I could go through the bushes. Down where this still was found a negro lives working for Mr. Smith, and I suppose it was about…