Smith v. Commonwealth

Garland Smith, twenty-two years old, is a native of Catawba county, North Carolina, and resided there until he came with his parents in September, 1929, to Mecklenburg county, Virginia, to live upon a farm which they had rented.

On Sunday, December 29, 1929, Bernard A. Puryear, a deputy sheriff, and officers J. T. Chaney, Mack Tuck, Stover Terry, C. O. Mullins and J. A. Hutchins, raided a still near Boydton and arrested upon that occasion W. J. Smith, his father, R. K. Smith, his uncle, and Burton Smith, his brother. After the still was destroyed the party with their prisoners started down…