Wells v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

Upon their trial in the Estill circuit court on an indictment charging them with the illicit manufacture of whiskey by operating a “moonshine” still, the appellants, Sol Wells and Charlie Isaacs, were convicted and each of them punished by a fine and imprisonment in the county jail. Their motion for a new trial was overruled and each of them has appealed.

They relied in their motion upon numerous errors as entitling them to a new trial, among which are: (1), because the verdict was contrary to the evidence and not supported by it, and (2), error of…