Barfield v. State

The appellants were convicted of having in possession a still to be used for manufacturing prohibited liquors.

The evidence for the state tended to show: That A. H. May, the sheriff of Houston county, in company with U. G. Watford and H. C. Adams, saw the defendants operating a still on Mercer creek in Houston county. The sheriff and those with him. reached the creek about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and went to a bluff above the-'creek in about 30 yards of the defendants, and concealed themselves and watched the defendants for about an hour and a half. “That Willie and Grady had a tub, toting…