Walker v. State

Appellant was convicted and sentenced for possessing and using a still for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor in violation of Acts 1925, ch. 48, §6, §2719 Burns 1926. Five officers—federal prohibition agents and city policemen—under authority of a search warrant issued by the city court raided a house at 431 Monroe Avenue in Evansville on February 4, 1926. Marion Eakins, alias “Byron Smith” and two other men were in the house. The officers found in the basement a sixty-gallon still, twenty-six gallons of- whisky, twelve barrels of mash, and other equipment of an illicit…