Stanton v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The sheriff testified that while riding through the country he saw an army tent at the head of a ravine; that he rode up to it and saw appellant sitting on a box about fifteen or twenty feet distant from the tent. The sheriff said: “I asked him what that was in there and he told me I ought to know. I went back to the tent and raised the flap and looked in and a still was there and in operation.”

The sheriff described the still…