Ward v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for possessing a still for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

We have examined the various complaints made by appellant, and are of opinion that none of them show error except the one hereinafter discussed.

Officers located a still, mash, etc., and stationed themselves to see if the parties operating same should appear. Appellant and others came to the place. Appellant was observed to take the tops off two barrels of mash, and, acting with another, to take the still off the furnace, and also to do something with a shovel…