Pickle v. State

The appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted for the unlawful and felonious owning, controlling, and knowingly having in possession the integral parts of a still. It appears that the sheriff of the county had some information which led him to believe that appellant was operating a still, or had possession of a still. The sheriff went to- a justice of the peace, made out some kind of affidavit, and procured a search warrant — neither of which were produced on the trial, but appear to have been lost. There was no proof of the contents of the affidavit, nor of the search warrant; but the…