Dixon v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

We granted the writ in the instant case because the cases cited in the opinion of the Court of Appeals do not appear to support the conclusion of that court.

Hudson v. State, 249 Ala. 372, 31 So.2d 774, is merely a “trail case,” with facts dissimilar to the facts here. Moreover, that is a possession case and could not be authority for the absence of proof of the corpus'delicti insofar as the distilling count is concerned.

Milam v. State, 24 Ala.App. 403, 136 So. 831, admittedly must be distinguished in order to keep it from being in conflict with the opinion of the Court of…