Wallace v. State

RICE, Judge.

Briefly, some officers, crawling through the weeds, “flushed a covey” (we’ll call ’em that) of men and boys from around a still, set up, in operation, and producing whisky. No officer claimed to have seen any one doing anything with, to, or about or concerning, said still. Everybody “broke and ran” ; and this appellant, a young man, with a companion, a mere boy, was overhauled, so to speak, some distance away from the still. The “companion” referred to began to cry. Whereupon, as the state’s witnesses were allowed to testify, over due objection, etc., appellant remonstrated with…