Van Zant v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is the possession of a still for manufacturing intoxicating liquor; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Appellant timely excepted to the failure of the court to embody in his charge an instruction covering the law of circumstantial evidence. We think under the facts that such an instruction should have been given. It was incumbent upon the state to show that appellant had care, control arid management of the still. The main fact to be proved was the possession of a still for manufacturing intoxicating liquor. As we view the record, the…