McNeill v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted of having in his possession a whisky still for the unlawful purpose of manufacturing whisky and distilled spirits, and sentenced to pay a fine of f 100 and be imprisoned in the county jail for thirty days. Prom the sentence and judgment the defendant has appealed to this court.

The testimony on behalf of the state tends to show that the officers were out in the neighborhood of defendant’s home and, after they had searched the place of a man by the name of Thornton, went over on defendant’s place about a quarter of a mile…