Deas v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charges (1) the manufacture of prohibited liquors; and (2) the possession of a still, etc. The verdict of the jury was guilty as charged in the indictment.

The evidence was that two officers, Mr. Tarlton and Mr. Shaw, went to a house located in Clarke County, Alabama, which ■contained a whiskey still. Mr. Shaw observed a Negro man, Miller House, tending a fire under the still, but saw no one else in the house. Mr. Shaw then moved back through the woods, circling a “good sized” ■swamp and briar patch, to meet a pickup ■car and tell them to come back later.…