Pope v. State

The appellant, Leo Pope, was tried and convicted under an indictment charging that he and another ‘ ‘ did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously have in their possession an integral part of a distillery, commonly called a still.”

The officers, including E. G-. Barnett, Sheriff of Neshoba County, Eichard Willis, a policeman of the City of Philadelphia, Mississippi, Jack Warner, Sheriff of Winston County and John Stewart, a deputy sheriff, all testified that they found only 20 or 21 barrels of working-mash, a 55 gallon drum and another drum “setting over the burner under the drum they (the…