Bentley v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The defendants were indicted separately for the offense of the illegal possession of a still. By agreement the cases were consolidated and tried jointly, resulting in a verdict of guilty, as to each defendant, for the offense of “an attempt to commit the offense charged in the indictment.”

The evidence for the state tended to show that the Sheriff of Franklin County and his deputies raided a still about half a quarter of a mile from the home of defendants, the still was in full operation and two men, one of whom was defendants’ son-in-law, were arrested at the still. It was not…