Crenshaw v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing a still and equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

Appellant and his mother lived on a farm which they jointly owned. Some three or four hundred yards from their residence and across a railroad therefrom, there was a house which was supposedly used for storing feedstuff and farm tools.

Without a search warrant two officers went on the premises belonging to appellant and his mother, and, when within about sixty yards of this house, they heard a “lumbering” noise therein. Appellant came out…