Wilkes v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction in District Court of Hopkins County of possessing mash and equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, punishment two years and six months in the penitentiary.

Officers were on their way at night for the purpose of conducting an investigation of appellant’s premises. As they were passing the home of one Lewis several hundred yards from that of appellant, they observed a light in the smokehouse of Lewis. The walls of the house had large cracks in them. Approaching the smokehouse and looking through the cracks the officers observed appellant and a negro…